Screening the budding yeast genome reveals unique factors affecting K2 toxin susceptibility.

BACKGROUND: Understanding how biotoxins kill cells is of prime importance in biomedicine and the food industry. The budding yeast (S. cerevisiae) killers serve as a convenient model to study the activity of biotoxins consistently supplying with significant insights into the basic mechanisms of virus...

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Main Authors: Elena Servienė, Juliana Lukša, Irma Orentaitė, Denis L J Lafontaine, Jaunius Urbonavičius
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3515549?pdf=render