Author(s): Sultana S; Abdullah M; Li J; Hochstrasser M; Kachroo AH;

Yeast and humans share thousands of genes despite a billion years of evolutionary divergence. While many human genes can functionally replace their yeast counterparts, nearly half of the tested shared genes cannot. For example, most yeast proteasome subunits are "humanizable", except subunits comprising the ß-ring core, including ß2c (HsPSMB7, a constitut ...

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Fungi play a critical role in the global carbon cycle by degrading plant polysaccharides to small sugars and metabolizing them as carbon and energy sources. We mapped the well-established sugar metabolic network of Aspergillus niger to five taxonomically distant species (Aspergillus nidulans, Pen ...

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Author(s): Kachroo AH; Vandeloo M; Greco BM; Abdullah M;

For decades, budding yeast, a single-cellular eukaryote, has provided remarkable insights into human biology. Yeast and humans share several thousand genes despite morphological and cellular differences and over a billion years of separate evolution. These genes encode critical cellular processes, the failure of which in humans results in disease. Althoug ...

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