START control in yeast

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wittenberg, Curt
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Henry Stewart Talks 2009, 2009
Series:The cell division cycle : controlling when and where cells divide and differentiate
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Collection: Henry Stewart Talks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Control of cell proliferation
  • The budding yeast: Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • Why yeast?
  • The budding yeast life cycle
  • Placement of START in the cell cycle
  • Observing START
  • The G1 Checkpoint
  • Genetic characterization of START
  • Interdependency of Cdk1 with other regulators of START
  • Cyclin-Dependent Protein Kinase (CDK)
  • The cyclin/CDK cycle
  • G1 cyclin/CDK is essential for START
  • The role of CDK in START
  • Cell cycle dependent expression of Far1 and cyclins
  • Periodic accumulation of yeast cell cycle regulators
  • The molecular correlate of START
  • G1-specific transcription
  • G1-specific gene expression and human cancer
  • The molecular determinant of START
  • Physiological regulators of START
  • Mating generates diploid cells from two haploid cells
  • Cells of opposite mating types can conjugate
  • Stimulation of the mating pheromone cascade elicits three primary responses
  • Mating pheromone signaling pathway