Yeast Stress Responses

Every cell has developed mechanisms to respond to changes in its environment and to adapt its growth and metabolism to unfavorable conditions. The unicellular eukaryote yeast has long proven as a particularly useful model system for the analysis of cellul

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Stefan Hohmann Willem H. Mager

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Yeast Stress Responses With 61 Figures and 12 Tables

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Professor Dr. Stefan Hohmann Department of Cell and Molecular Biology/Microbiology G¨oteborg University Box 462, 405 30 G¨oteborg, Sweden Dr.Willem H. Mager Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Division of Scheikunde, Vrije Universiteit De Boelelaan 1083, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Table of Contents

Introduction ............................................................................................................. 1 Stefan Hohmann and Willem H. Mager.............................................................. 1 What is stress? ............................................................................................ 1 Studies of stress responses ......................................................................... 2 Cell proliferation and stress ....................................................................... 3 Aim of the stress response.......................................................................... 4 Phases of the stress response...................................................................... 5 Sensing and signalling................................................................................ 6 Adaptation to stress ..........................................................