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Robust spatial sensing of mating pheromone gradients by yeast cells.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2008
Moore Travis I, Chou Ching-Shan, Nie Qing, Jeon Noo Li, Yi Tau-Mu
Abstract excerpt
Projecting or moving up a chemical gradient is a universal behavior of living organisms. We tested the ability of S. cerevisiaea-cells to sense and respond to spatial gradients of the mating pheromone alpha-factor produced in a microfluidics chamber; the focus was on bar1Delta strains, which do not degrade the pheromone input. The yeast cells exhibited good accuracy with the mating projection typically pointing...
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