Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research
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Blog Post
Published
May 22, 2018, 1:38 p.m.
...the S. cerevisiae lineage (7).
In our class research project, students transform S. cerevisiae met deletion...synthesis (5). The budding yeast, Saccharomyces. cerevisiae, makes a great reference organism for the project... is available (6). Methionine synthesis in S. cerevisiae (Figure 1) occurs through a well-characterized...the same function as their counterparts in S. cerevisiae. The two yeasts are thought to have diverged ...carrying MET/Met genes from either S. pombe or S. cerevisiae. Students then determine if expression of the...plasmids in either E. coli (ori and ampR) or S. cerevisiae (2µm ori and URA3). The presence of the URA3 ...transformed with the plasmids, because the S. cerevisiae deletion strains are ∆ura3 mutants and cannot...