...it grows fast to boot. The yeast strains S. cerevisiae and S. pombe have dominated the research scene....the most frequently used yeast strains: S. pombe (fission) and S. cerevisiae (budding). Yeast make for ...probably wondering if the “biotech yeast” is S. pombe or S. cerevisiae. Actually, it’s neither. The most...phaffii and other yeast strains.     S. cerevisiae S. pombe K. phaffii Growth properties ...glycerol). K. phaffii is only distantly related to S. pombe and S. cerevisiae; evolutionarily it evolved much... K. phaffii to work   The yeast giants - S. cerevisiae and S. pombe - aren’t going anywhere anytime soon...Amenable to genetic manipulation The first eukaryote (S. cerevisiae) to have its genome fully sequenced There...

...source. S. cerevisiae  no no   LEU2 L-leucine no S. cerevisiae yes - This can complement leu1- S. pombe...L-hisitidine no S. cerevisiae  no yes   URA3 pyrimidine (uracil) yes - Grow with 5-FOA. S. cerevisiae yes... ura4+. leu1+ L-leucine   S. pombe  no no   ade6+ purine (adenine)   S. pombe  no no   Considerations...are included (reviewed here). Plasmids for use in S. pombe, on the other hand, do not require a well defined...sequence) dictate the replication of these vectors. S. pombe plasmids oftentimes utilize an ARS to aid in... yes - This can complement ura4- S. pombe, but the complementation is weak. yes   LYS2 L-lysine yes ... yes   TRP1 L-tryptophan yes - Grow with 5-FAA. S. cerevisiae no  no TRP1 alters some yeast phenotypes...

...rearrangements in the S. cerevisiae lineage (7). In our class research project, students transform S. cerevisiae...plasmids carrying MET/Met genes from either S. pombe or S. cerevisiae. Students then determine if expression...shown that most, but not all, S. pombe Met genes complement the corresponding S. cerevisiae met deficiencies...strains is available (6). Methionine synthesis in S. cerevisiae (Figure 1) occurs through a well-characterized..., have the same function as their counterparts in S. cerevisiae. The two yeasts are thought to have diverged... the plasmids in either E. coli (ori and ampR) or S. cerevisiae (2µm ori and URA3). The presence of the...successfully transformed with the plasmids, because the S. cerevisiae deletion strains are ∆ura3 mutants and...

...Addgene. Kim D, Kim J, Hur JK, Been KW, Yoon S, Kim J-S (2016) Genome-wide analysis reveals specificities...Cho H-Y, Song DW, Lee KJ, Jung MH, Kim S, Kim JH, Kim JH, Kim J-S (2017) In vivo genome editing with a ...sequences While PAM sequences for the commonly used S. pyogenes Cas9 (3'-NGG) are abundant throughout the...to circumvent this limitation: 1) the use of novel S. pyogenes Cas9 variants with varying PAM sequences... of Cas9 homologs derived from species other than S. pyogenes, and 3) the use of non-Cas9 enzymes. (For...site, check out this video from IGI!) Synthetic S. pyogenes Cas9s with novel PAM recognition In 2015...selection screens in bacteria to identify mutants of S. pyogenes Cas9 that were able to cleave target DNA...

...and happy optimizing!  Recommended Reading Issa, S. S., Shaimardanova, A. A., Solovyeva, V. V., & Rizvanov...Resources References Aschauer, D. F., Kreuz, S., & Rumpel, S. (2013). Analysis of Transduction Efficiency...10.1089/hum.2009.169 Dudek, A. M., Pillay, S., Puschnik, A. S., Nagamine, C. M., Cheng, F., Qiu, J., Carette... https://doi.org/10.1038/s41434-019-0075-6 Issa, S. S., Shaimardanova, A. A., Solovyeva, V. V., & Rizvanov...10.1371/journal.pone.0076310 Damdindorj, L., Karnan, S., Ota, A., Hossain, E., Konishi, Y., Hosokawa, Y.,...Fong, D. M., Mouravlev, A., Young, D., & O’Carroll, S. J. (2019). Astrocyte-selective AAV gene therapy through...cells12050785 Kanaan, N. M., Sellnow, R. C., Boye, S. L., Coberly, B., Bennett, A., Agbandje-McKenna, M...

...depletion assay to discover FnCpf1’s PAM sequence requirements. Cpf1’s preferred PAM is 5’-TTN, differing...RuvC-like endonuclease domain, but they lack Cas9’s second HNH endonuclease domain. Cpf1 cleaves DNA in... RuvC-like endonuclease domain, but it lacks Cas9’s other HNH endonuclease domain, indicating that Cpf1... nuclease could potentially overcome some of Cas9’s shortcomings - namely its blunt double stranded cleavage...nucleotides in length, about the same size as Cas9’s, but with the direct repeat preceding the spacer rather...crRNA is also much simpler in structure than Cas9’s; only a short stem-loop structure in the direct repeat... added another option to the CRISPR toolbox. Cpf1’s staggered cleavage pattern opens up the possibility...

...integrate protein tags into the genomes of S. cerevisiae and S. pombe. The protocol is surprisingly simple...Yeast-optimized fluorophores for imaging Lee S, et al. (2013) PLoS ONE 8(7): e67902. Many imaging...al.(1) assessed many of these fluorescent tags in S. cerevisiae, looking at their performance in categories...plasmids for a wide variety of genome modifications in S. Pombe, including full and partial gene deletion, ...describe a complimentary set of plasmids for use in S. cerevisiae, with the additional benefit of multiple...system that isn't mentioned here? References: Lee S, Lim WA, Thorn KS. PLoS One. 2013 Jul 2;8(7):e67902...

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...Schüchner, et al.’s results mean the end of 9E10’s time in the saga of the Myc tag? Hardly! 9E10’s accessibility...generated in an attempt to overcome some of Myc1-9E10’s shortcomings. Wait, 9E10 isn’t the Mary Poppins of... acids neighboring the Myc epitope influence 9E10’s affinity for the epitope, a phenomenon known as sequence...https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.5.12.3610-3616.1985 Munro S, Pelham HR (1984) Use of peptide tagging to detect...doi.org/10.1002/j.1460-2075.1984.tb02263.x  Munro S, Pelham HRB (1986) An hsp70-like protein in the ER...https://doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(86)90746-4 Munro S, Pelham HRB (1987) A C-terminal signal prevents secretion...//doi.org/10.1016/0092-8674(87)90086-9  Schüchner S, Behm C, Mudrak I, Ogris E (2020) The Myc tag monoclonal...

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...viability of your cells. Enrich S-phase cells HR operates predominantly in S and G2 phase of the cell cycle....1016/j.jbiotec.2019.11.010 Wright, D. W., Shah, S. S., Heyer, W. D. Homologous recombination and the ...2018). 1 10.1074/jbc.TM118.000372 Yang, H., Ren, S., Yu, S., Pan, H., et al. Methods favoring homology-directed...regulatory proteins responsible for the transition out of S phase, so cells stay in an HDR-promoted cycle longer...., 21(18): 6461 (2020). 10.3390/ijms21186461 Lin, S., Staahl, B. T., Alla, R. K., Doudna, J. A. Enhanced...01836-2 Charpentier, M., Khedher, A. H. Y., Menerot, S., Brion, A., et al. CtIP fusion to Cas9 enhances transgene...

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