A functional screen for copper homeostasis genes identifies a pharmacologically tractable cellular system
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ABSTRACT: Copper is an essential component of cytochrome C oxidase (i.e. complex IV of the electron transport chain), and is thus critical for the survival of aerobic organisms. If copper is not properly regulated in the body however, it can be extremely cytotoxic and genetic mutations that compromise copper homeostasis result in severe clinical phenotypes. Understanding how cells maintain optimal copper levels is therefore highly relevant to human health. We found that addition of copper to culture medium leads to increased respiratory growth of yeast, a phenotype which we then systematically and quantitatively measured in 5050 homozygous diploid deletion strains using microarrays.
ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PROVIDER: GSE47175 | GEO | 2013/05/23
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA204982
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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