Article
Yeast on drugs: Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a tool for anticancer drug research.
Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico - 1 Apr 2007
Menacho-Márquez M, Murguía J R
Abstract excerpt
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is being widely used as a model for investigating fundamental processes relevant to all living organisms. Many of these processes are affected by genetic and epigenetic alterations in cancer such as cell cycle progression, DNA replication and segregation...
Topics
- Antineoplastic Agents
- DNA, Complementary
- Drug Design
- Drug Resistance, Fungal
- Drug Screening Assays, Antitumor
- Gene Deletion
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal
- Genes, Fungal
- Genetic Research
- Genomics