Exploring absent protein function in yeast: assaying post translational modification and human genetic variation

Yeast is a valuable eukaryotic model organism that has evolved many processes conserved up to humans, yet many protein functions, including certain DNA and protein modifications, are absent. It is this absence of protein function that is fundamental to approaches using yeast as an in vivo test syste...

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Main Authors: Christina S. Moesslacher, Johanna M. Kohlmayr, Ulrich Stelzl
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Language:English
Published: Shared Science Publishers OG 2021-07-01
Series:Microbial Cell
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Online Access:http://microbialcell.com/researcharticles/2021a-moesslacher-microbial-cell/
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author Christina S. Moesslacher
Johanna M. Kohlmayr
Ulrich Stelzl
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description Yeast is a valuable eukaryotic model organism that has evolved many processes conserved up to humans, yet many protein functions, including certain DNA and protein modifications, are absent. It is this absence of protein function that is fundamental to approaches using yeast as an in vivo test system to investigate human proteins. Functionality of the heterologous expressed proteins is connected to a quantitative, selectable phenotype, enabling the systematic analyses of mechanisms and specificity of DNA modification, post-translational protein modifications as well as the impact of annotated cancer mutations and coding variation on protein activity and interaction. Through continuous improvements of yeast screening systems, this is increasingly carried out on a global scale using deep mutational scanning approaches. Here we discuss the applicability of yeast systems to investigate absent human protein function with a specific focus on the impact of protein variation on protein-protein interaction modulation.
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spelling doaj-art-63edb7a36f7148b5939eea95eea5977a2025-08-20T02:57:37ZengShared Science Publishers OGMicrobial Cell2311-26382021-07-018816418310.15698/mic2021.08.756Exploring absent protein function in yeast: assaying post translational modification and human genetic variationChristina S. Moesslacher0Johanna M. Kohlmayr1Ulrich Stelzl2Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and BioTechMed-Graz, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and BioTechMed-Graz, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and BioTechMed-Graz, University of Graz, Graz, Austria.Yeast is a valuable eukaryotic model organism that has evolved many processes conserved up to humans, yet many protein functions, including certain DNA and protein modifications, are absent. It is this absence of protein function that is fundamental to approaches using yeast as an in vivo test system to investigate human proteins. Functionality of the heterologous expressed proteins is connected to a quantitative, selectable phenotype, enabling the systematic analyses of mechanisms and specificity of DNA modification, post-translational protein modifications as well as the impact of annotated cancer mutations and coding variation on protein activity and interaction. Through continuous improvements of yeast screening systems, this is increasingly carried out on a global scale using deep mutational scanning approaches. Here we discuss the applicability of yeast systems to investigate absent human protein function with a specific focus on the impact of protein variation on protein-protein interaction modulation.http://microbialcell.com/researcharticles/2021a-moesslacher-microbial-cell/yeast two-hybriddeep mutational scanningmassively parallel reporter assaysprotein-protein interactioncancer mutationsphosphorylationdna methylation
spellingShingle Christina S. Moesslacher
Johanna M. Kohlmayr
Ulrich Stelzl
Exploring absent protein function in yeast: assaying post translational modification and human genetic variation
Microbial Cell
yeast two-hybrid
deep mutational scanning
massively parallel reporter assays
protein-protein interaction
cancer mutations
phosphorylation
dna methylation
title Exploring absent protein function in yeast: assaying post translational modification and human genetic variation
title_full Exploring absent protein function in yeast: assaying post translational modification and human genetic variation
title_fullStr Exploring absent protein function in yeast: assaying post translational modification and human genetic variation
title_full_unstemmed Exploring absent protein function in yeast: assaying post translational modification and human genetic variation
title_short Exploring absent protein function in yeast: assaying post translational modification and human genetic variation
title_sort exploring absent protein function in yeast assaying post translational modification and human genetic variation
topic yeast two-hybrid
deep mutational scanning
massively parallel reporter assays
protein-protein interaction
cancer mutations
phosphorylation
dna methylation
url http://microbialcell.com/researcharticles/2021a-moesslacher-microbial-cell/
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