Overview
- Offers insights into work with unconventional yeasts, both in industry and in basic research
- Broadens our understanding of physiological genomics in yeasts
- Illustrates the connection between basic research, application, and medicine
Part of the book series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology (PMSB, volume 58)
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This book discusses genome-based strategies to provide a holistic understanding of yeasts in Human Health and as model organisms in basic research or industrial production. Using numerous Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains and various non-conventional yeast species isolated from diverse origins, it describes essential biological processes, the biotechnological exploitation of yeast and pathogenesis control. It also demonstrates how functional and comparative genomics and the development of genome engineering tools are used in modern yeast research.
The use of yeasts as experimental eukaryotic models increasingly gained prominence when several Nobel Prizes in Physiology/Medicine and Chemistry were awarded for innovative research, using yeast strains to elucidate molecular mechanisms in a wide range of human physiological processes and diseases, such as autophagy, cell cycle regulation and telomerase activity.
This book offers useful insights for scientists in yeast research, clinical scientists working with yeast infectious models and for industrial researchers using applied microbiology.
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Yeasts in Biotechnology and Human Health
Book Subtitle: Physiological Genomic Approaches
Editors: Isabel Sá-Correia
Series Title: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13035-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13034-3Published: 02 April 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13037-4Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13035-0Published: 25 March 2019
Series ISSN: 0079-6484
Series E-ISSN: 2197-8484
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 242
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Eukaryotic Microbiology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Applied Microbiology, Medical Microbiology, Biomedical Engineering/Biotechnology