Contribution of Yeast Models to Neurodegeneration Research

As a model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae has greatly contributed to our understanding of many fundamental aspects of cellular biology in higher eukaryotes. More recently, engineered yeast models developed to study endogenous or heterologous proteins that lay at the root of a given disease have b...

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Main Authors: Clara Pereira, Cláudia Bessa, Joana Soares, Mariana Leão, Lucília Saraiva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/941232