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Stress Responses in S. pombe

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The Molecular Biology of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

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Cells, especially single cell organisms like yeast, must contend with frequent fluctuations in the availability of nutrients, variations in pH, temperature and external osmolarity, exposure to UV irradiation, dehydration and a large range of potentially toxic environmental compounds. In response to abrupt and adverse changes in the quality of their environment unicellular organisms invoke a variety of programmed stress responses. Characterization of these responses — the mechanisms involved in sensing stress, the signaling pathways that transmit that information to various parts of the cell and the resulting compensatory changes in gene expression and metabolism — permits us to understand how cells adapt and survive under non-ideal growth conditions.

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  1. Department of Genetics, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farimagsgade 2A, 1353, Copenhagen K, Denmark

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Toone, W.M., Jones, N. (2004). Stress Responses in S. pombe . In: Egel, R. (eds) The Molecular Biology of Schizosaccharomyces pombe . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-10360-9_5

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