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Gene silencing in budding yeast

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Gene silencing: an epigenetic phenomenon -- Chromatin remodeling: heterochromatin and euchromatin -- Silent chromatin in budding yeast: mating-type loci -- Silent information regulation: telomeric genes and Sir proteins.…”
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Chromosome bi-orientation in yeast

Table of Contents: “…-- Failure to bi-orient a chromosome will lead to mis-segregation/aneuploidy -- Modes of sister chromatid attachment to spindle microtubules -- The budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as a model for studying chromosome bi-orientation -- Monitoring sister centromeres on individual yeast chromosomes -- Kinetochore capture -- Achieving chromosome bi-orientation: mechanisms -- Geometry-dependent mechanism or a correction mechanism? …”
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A novel cancer therapy to stimulate oncogenic ERK signalling

Table of Contents: “…Contents: MAPK signalling and its relevance to cancer therapy -- The discovery of ACA-28 -- The use of yeast within drug discovery -- Effect of ACA-28 on the apoptosis of cancer cells -- Implications of ACA-28 in cancer therapeutics.…”
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Protein networks and analysis of global gene expression

Table of Contents: “…Contents: A paradigm shift: from databases of protein sequences to protein interactions -- Technologies for measuring interactions -- Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) -- Yeast Two Hybrid (Y2H) technology -- Mass spectrometry based approaches -- Methods for querying protein networks with gene expression profiles -- Systematic validation of protein network models using gene deletions -- Cytoscape open-source software for network modeling and visualization -- Methods for network comparison across species -- Application to discover conserved protein complexes among the networks of yeast, worm, fly and Plasmodium -- Methods for querying protein networks to explain genetic (synthetic lethal) interactions -- Future directions: how network queries will enable systems biology.…”
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Computational modelling of GPCR signalling dynamics

Table of Contents: “…Contents: GPCRs signalling kinetics can be modelled using simple equations -- Link between computational modelling and pharmacology -- Yeast are excellent system for computational models -- RGS proteins show non-intuitive activity -- Kinetic models of GPCRs can model agonist bias.…”
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