Commonly used Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains (e.g. BY4741, W303) are growth sensitive on synthetic complete medium due to poor leucine uptake

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 239-243

  Cohen, Ruth ^a   Engelberg, David ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

BAP2; LEU2; Leucine auxotrophicity; Leucine uptake; TAT1

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BAP2 GENE; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC COMPLETE MEDIUM; TAT1 GENE;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; LEUCINE; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 34447510035     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00798.x     Document Type: Article

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