XXth International Conference on Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology: Posters

01 - DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair

  • 01-01
    •   Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae HSM2 (HMO1) gene participates in a specific process of DNA repair that eliminates pre-mutational DNA damages.
    Sergei Yu. Alekseev, Irina V. Fedorova, Svetlana V. Kovaltsova, Vladimir G. Korolev
    DMRB, Petersburg Nuclear Physics In., Orlova Roscha, Gatchina, 188350, Russia

  • 01-02
    •   Mitochondrial single-stranded DNA-binding protein: The search for protein partners of Rim1p.
    Blanka Kucejova (1), Jozef Nosek (1), Francoise Foury (2)
    (1) Department of Biochemistry, Comenius University, Mlynska Dolina CH- 1, Bratislava, 842 15, Slovak Republic; (2) Unite de Biochimie Physiologique, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Rue Croix du Sud 2/20, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  • 01-03
    •   Screening for new genes involved in the transcriptional response to DNA damage in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Lyne Josse, Fiona Flett, Stuart Gledhill, Richard Walmsley
    BMS, UMIST, Sackville Street, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK

  • 01-04
    •   The use of a DNA damage reporter system, currently undergoing development for environmental monitoring, in a study of dye effluent treatment methods.
    Patrick Keenan (1), Richard M. Walmsley (1), Andrew W. Knight (2)
    (1) Biomolecular Sciences, UMIST, Sackille Street, Manchester, M60 1QD, United Kingdom; (2) Department of Instrumentation and Analytical Science, UMIST, Sackille Street, Manchester, M60 1QD, United Kingdom

  • 01-05
    •   Influence of adenine starvation on the ade5-1 reversion in proofreading exonuclease deficient S.cerevisiae strains.
    Alessandro Achilli (1), Youri I. Pavlov (2), Giorgio Morpurgo (1), Nora Babudri (1)
    (1) Dep.Cell.and Mol.Biology, University of Perugia, Via Pascoli, Perugia, 06100, Italy; (2) Dept.of Genetics,St.Petersburg University,199034 St.Petersburg, Russia. Present address: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC27709, USA.

  • 01-06
    •   Suppression of frameshift mutations arising in polymerase eta deficient S.cerevisiae strain by deletion of the RAD30 gene.
    Nora Babudri (1), Youri I. Pavlov (2), Nabil Matmati (1), Alessandro Achilli (1)
    (1) Dept.of Cell.and Molec.Biol., University of Perugia, Via Pascoli, Perugia, 06100, Italy; (2) Dept.of Genetics, St.Petersburg University, 199034 St.Petersburg, Russia. Present address: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIEHS, Research Triangle Park, NC27709, USA

  • 01-07
    •   The RAD9 cell cycle checkpoint gene is required for optimal repair of UV-induced pyrimidine dimers.
    Nisreen Al-Moghrabi, Ibtehaj Al- Sharif, Abdelilah Aboussekhra
    Biological and medicalresearch, Hospital, Al Takhassoussi, Riadh, 11211, KSA

  • 01-08
    •   Silent repair accounts for cell cycle specificity in the signaling of oxidative DNA lesions.
    Christophe Leroy, Carl Mann, Marie-Claude Marsolier
    CEA/Saclay, SBGM, Bat. 142, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191, France

  • 01-09
    •    Genetic analysis of DNA replication in Yeast.
    Nawin Mishra, Marion Cooley
    Biol.Sciences, University of South Carolina, 700,Sumter St., Columbia, SC 29208, USA

  • 01-10
    •   Dna2p Functions at yeast telomeres and rDNA.
    Judith Campbell (1), Martin Budd (2), Tao Wei (1), Won-chae Choe (1), Laura Hoopes (1)
    (1) Biology and Chemistry, Caltech, California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; (2)

  • 01-11
    •   Function of the ubiquitin system in postreplicative DNA repair.
    Helle D. Ulrich
    Max Planck Institute, for terrestrial Microbiology, Karl-v.-Frisch-Str., Marburg, D-35043, Germany

  • 01-12
    •    Saccharomyces cerevisiae POL1 is a significant contributor to mutation avoidance and mutations of POL1 induce various mutator phenotypes.
    Teresa Wang, Pedro Gutierrez
    Department of Pathology, Stanford Univ. Medical School, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5324, USA

  • 01-13
    •   Pol32, a subunit of the S. cerevisiae DNA polymerase delta, is involved in translesion synthesis pathway.
    Meng-Er Huang (1), Anne-Gaëlle Rio (1), Alain Nicolas (2), Francis Galibert (1)
    (1) UMR6061 CNRS, Faculté de Médecine, 2 Av Pr Léon Bernard, Rennes, 35043, France; (2) Institut Curie, Section de Recherche, UMR 144 CNRS, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75248 Paris Cedex 05, France

  • 01-14
    •   Recombinational repair of genomic double-strand breaks.
    Yael Aylon, Batiya Liefshitz, Martin Kupiec
    Molc. Microbiology & Biotech., Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

  • 01-15
    •   A checkpoint-independent telomeric response to DNA replication stress.
    Agnès Michel, David Shore
    Molecular Biology, university of Geneva, quai E. Ansermet 30, Geneva, 1211, switzerland

  • 01-16
    •   Stability of CAG trinucleotide repeats during I-Sce I induced meiotic recombination in yeast.
    Guy-Franck Richard, Bernard Dujon
    Génétique Mol. des Levures, Institut Pasteur, 25, rue du Dr Roux, Paris cedex 15, 75724, France

  • 01-17
    •   Lesion bypass in yeast: involvement of several ‘translesional’ DNA polymerases.
    Anne Bresson, Robert P.P. Fuchs
    CMMS, UPR9003 CNRS ESBS, Bld S. Brant, Illkirch, 67400, FRANCE

  • 01-18
    •   Checkpoint genes and radiation sensitivity in budding yeast.
    Natalia A. Koltovaya (1), Yulia V. Nikulushkina (1), Alexandr B Devin (2)
    (1) Radiation and Radiobiol. Res., Joint Inst. for Nuclear Res., Curie, Dubna, 141980, Russia; (2) Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Acafemy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  • 01-19
    •   Regulation of initiation of DNA replication from multiple replication origins on a single chromosome.
    Yuki Katoh (1), Hideki Noguchi (1), Tetsushi Yada (1), Saori Mori (1), Mina Hiraoka (1), Yoshiyuki Sakaki (1), Hiroshi Yoshikawa (2), Katsuhiko Shirahige (1)
    (1) Human Genome research Group, Riken Genomeic Science Center, 1-7-22 Suehiro, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230-0045, Japan; (2) Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 8916-5, Takayama, Ikoma City, Japan, 631-0025

  • 01-20
    •   Checkpoint rad pathway regulates meiotic progression in recombination deficient mutants of fission yeast.
    Midori Shimada, Kentaro Nabeshima, Hiroshi Nojima
    Molecular Genetics, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-1, Suita, 565-0871, Japan

  • 01-21
    •   The relationship between autonomous replication sequences and the 3'- end of adjacent genes.
    Christi Magrath, Daniel Vines, Michelle Jones
    Biological Science, Troy State University, University Blvd, Troy, AL 36082, United States of America

  • 01-22
    •   Double strand break (DSB) repair at coding regions of chromosome ends in yeast.
    Miria Ricchetti, Cecile Fairhead, Bernard Dujon
    Biotechnologie, Institut Pasteur, 25,rue du Dr. Roux, Paris, 75015, France

  • 01-23
    •   The role of DNA double strand breaks in homologous mitotic recombination.
    Uffe Mortensen (1), Naz Erdeniz (2), Adriana Antunez de Mayolo (2), Qi Feng (2), Michael Lisby (2), Rodney Rothstein (2)
    (1) BioCentrum, Technical University, Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Lyngby, DK-2800, Denmark; (2) Department of Genetics, Columbia University, 701 w 168th St., New York, NY 10032

  • 01-24
    •   A dissection of the molecular mechanisms behind DNA double strand break repair during meiosis.
    Tanja Thybo Frederiksen, Uffe Mortensen
    BioCentrum, Technical University, Denmark, Søltofts Plads, Lyngby, DK- 2800, Denmark

  • 01-25
    •   Characterization of a new DNA replication initiation factor, Mcm10.
    Ming Lei, Craig Cook, Jeff Galecke, Rebekah Burich
    Microbio. and Mol. Genetics , Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA

  • 01-26
    •   Pmr1, manganese and Ty1 reverse transcription.
    Eric C. Bolton, Jef D. Boeke
    Molecular Biology & Genetics, Johns Hopkins University-SOM, 725 N. Wolfe St./617, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

  • 01-27
    •   A genome-wide screen for factors involved in non-homologous end joining.
    Siew Loon Ooi (1), Daniel D. Shoemaker (2), Jef D. Boeke (1)
    (1) Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University SOM, 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; (2) Rosetta Inpharmatics Inc., 12040 115th Street NE, Kirkland, WA 98034, USA

  • 01-28
    •   Growth Arrest in S. cerevisiae Telomerase Mutants.
    Arne IJpma, Aurora Esquela Kerscher, Jiangwen Zhang, Carol W. Greider
    Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University SOM, 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

  • 01-29
    •   Replication fork barrier used in vivo in the circular plasmid pKD1.
    Carmela Irene (1), Lucia Fabiani (2), Maria Aragona (3), Carol S. Newlon (4)
    (1) Dip. Biol. Cell. e Sviluppo, Universà

  • 01-30
    •   Occurrence of duplications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae : a way to chromosomal reshaping.
    Jacky de Montigny, Joseph Schacherer, Yves Tourette, Anne Welker, Serge Potier, Jean-Luc Souciet
    Lab. de Micro. et Génétique, Institut de Botanique, 28, rue Goethe, Strasbourg, 67083, France

  • 01-31
    •   Adaptive mutagenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is affected by heterologous gene v-myb .
    Tomáš Cápal (1), Michal Dvoøák (2), Vladinír Vondrejs (1)
    (1) Genetics and microbiology, Faculty of science UK, Vinièná 5, Prague 2, 12844, Czech republic; (2) ÚMG AVÈR, Flemingovo nám. 2, 166 37 Praha 6

  • 01-32
    •   Participation of the E. coli RecA protein in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks in the yeast of S. cerevisiae .
    Andrej Dudas (1), Eva Markova (2), Miroslav Chovanec (2), Danusa Vlasakova (2), Jela Brozmanova (2)
    (1) Department of Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences,Vlarska 7,833 91 Bratislava,Slovak Republic; (2) Molecular Genetics, Cancer Research Institute, Vlarska 7, Bratislava 37, 83391, Slovak Republic

  • 01-33
    •   Lif2p, a Lif1p-interacting factor essential for NHEJ and downregulated in yeast diploid cells.
    Marie Frank-Vaillant, Stéphane Marcand
    SBGM, CEA/Saclay, Bat. 142, Gif-sur-Yvette, 91191, France

  • 01-34
    •   The roles of S. pombe DNA repair functions in determining sensitivity to topoisomerase targeting agents.
    Noor-E-Mobeen Malik, John L. Nitiss
    Molecular Pharmacology Dept., St. Jude Children's Res. Hosp., 332 N. Lauderdale St, Memphis, TN 38018, USA

  • 01-35
    •   The genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that exert control over the spontaneous mutation rate.
    Robert C. von Borstel, Sandra L. O'Keefe, Micah A. Chrenek
    Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, B-202 BioSciences, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada



    02 - Transcription and RNA Versatility

  • 02-01
    •   ARTIFICIAL TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATORS THAT MIMICS THE GENOME-WIDE PROPERTIES OF ZINC-FINGER YEAST TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS.
    Frederic Devaux, Philippe Marc, Immrich Hikkel, Stephane Le Crom, Thierry Delaveau, Pierre Zindy, Claude Jacq
    Laboratoire de genetique molec, ENS-CNRS, 46, rue d'Ulm, Paris, 75230, France

  • 02-02
    •   The yeast protein Xtc1 functions as a direct transcriptional repressor.
    Ana Traven (1), Milica Arneric (1), Johnson MS Wong (2), C James Ingles (2), Mary Sopta (1)
    (1) Dep. of Molecular Genetics, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Bijenicka 54, Zagreb, 10000, Croatia; (2) Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, University of Toronto, 112 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L6, Canada

  • 02-03
    •   Maf1p, a negative regulator of RNA polymerase III in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Krzysztof Pluta (1), Olivier Lefebvre (2), Nancy C. Martin (3), Wieslaw J. Smagowicz (1), Steven R. Ellis (3), Anita K. Hopper (4), Andre Sentenac (2), Magdalena Boguta (1)
    (1) Department of Genetics, IBB PAS , Pawinskiego 5a, Warsaw, 02-106, Poland; (2) Service de Biochimie et de Génétique Moléculaire, CEA/Saclay, F- 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France; (3) Department of Biochemistry, University of Louisville Medical Center, Louisville, KY 40292, USA; (4) Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA

  • 02-04
    •   Transcriptional co-regulation by the cell integrity MAP kinase Slt2 and the cell cycle regulator Swi4.
    Kristin Baetz, Jason Moffat, Jennifer Haynes, Michael Chang, Brenda Andrews
    Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, 1 Kings College Circ, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada

  • 02-05
    •   Control of gene expression by the negative regulator Opi1 of yeast phospholipid biosynthesis involves contact to the pleiotropic repressor Sin3 and the transcriptional activator Ino2.
    Christian Wagner, Martin Dietz, Jürgen Wittmann, Antje Albrecht, Hans-Joachim Schüller
    Dept. Genetics/Biochemistry, Institute of Microbiology, Jahnstrasse 15a, Greifswald, D-17487, Germany

  • 02-06
    •   Yeast is not always a good model for higher organisms; the case with the formation of m 2 2 G in yeast and human tRNA.
    Jianming Liu (1), Gerard Keith (2), Kerstin B. Straby (3)
    (1) The Skaggs Inst. for Chem. Biology, Scripps Research Institute, North Torrey Pines Rd, BCC-379, La Jolla, CA92037, USA; (2) IBMC du CNRS, F-67084 Strasbourg, France; (3) Microbiology, Umea university, Campus area, Umea, S-901 87, Sweden

  • 02-07
    •   Classical and contemporary molecular genetic techniques identifies the novel antifungal mechanism of action for UK-118005.
    Timothy Young (1), Tanya Parkinson (1), Ronald Blackman (2), Karen McGovern (2), Liping Wu (2), Chris Bulawa (2)
    (1) Discovery Biology, Pfizer, Ramsgate Road, Sandwich, CT13 9NJ, UK; (2) Millennium Pharmaceuticals, 75 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

  • 02-08
    •   Genetic and molecular characterization of THO1, a multicopy supressor of, hpr1 .
    Sonia Jimeno, Andres Aguilera
    Genetica, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina mercedes, Sevilla, 41012, Spain

  • 02-09
    •   The binding sites in the upstream activation sequence (UAS GABA ) of Uga3p is different from others of the cys 6 zinc finger family of transcription factors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Anu M. Idicula, Rosemary A. Dorrington
    Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Prince Alfred Street, Grahamstown, 6140, South Africa

  • 02-10
    •   Genetics and molecular analysis of thp1 , a yeast gene controlling transcription and recombination.
    Mercedes Gallardo, Andres Aguilera
    Departamento de Genetica, Fac. Biologia, Univ. Sevilla, Reina Mercedes 6, Sevilla, 41012, Spain

  • 02-11
    •   ISOLATION AND GENETIC ANALYSIS OF NOVEL HPR1 AND THO2 MUTATIONS THAT DIFFERENTIALLY AFFECT TRANSCRIPTION AND RECOMBINATION.
    Pablo Huertas, Andres Aguilera
    Departamento de Genetica, Universidad de Sevilla, Av. Reina Mercedes 6, Sevilla, 41012, SPAIN

  • 02-12
    •   Moleculer genetic interactions of ROK1 RNA helicase complexes.
    Min-han Ka, Su-jung Jun, Jinmi Kim
    Department of Microbiology, Chungnam National University, Kung-dong 220, Taejeon, 305-764, SOUTH KOREA

  • 02-13
    •   Comprehensive isolation of meiosis-specific genes identifies novel proteins and unusual non-coding transcripts in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
    Takanori Watanabe (1), Kazuyuki Miyashita (1), Takamune Saito (1), Takahiro Yoneki (1), Yoshito Kakihara (1), Kentaro Nabeshima (1), Chikashi Shimoda (2), Hiroshi Nojima (1)
    (1) Molecular Genetics, Microbial Diseases, yamadaoka 3-1, minoo, 565-0871, Japan; (2) Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585, Japan.

  • 02-14
    •   The Mrs2p from S. cerevisiae interacts with group II intron aI5g in vitro.
    Karola Lehmann, Ulf Stahl, Udo Schmidt
    Microbiology and Genetics, TU Berlin, Gustav-Meyer-Allee25, Berlin, 13355, Germany

  • 02-15
    •   The Myb-related Bas1p transcription factor – dissection of domains involved in DNA-interaction in vitro and in vivo .
    Torill Line Kongsrud (1), Benoit Pinson (2), Bertrand Daignan- Fornier (2), Odd Stokke Gabrielsen (1)
    (1) Department of Biochemistry, University of Oslo, P.O.Box 1041 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway; (2) I.B.G.C. du C.N.R.S. UMR 5095, 1, rue C. Saint-Saëns, 33077 Bordeaux cedex, France

  • 02-16
    •   Functional studies of the highly conserved jumonji domain.
    Susanna Tronnersjö, Darius Balciunas, Hans Ronne
    Department of Plant Biology, Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, Box 7080, Uppsala, SE- 75007, Sweden

  • 02-17
    •   Analysis of the role of Mss11p in pseudohyphal differentiation and invasive growth.
    Marco Gagiano, Florian F. Bauer, Isak S. Pretorius
    Institute for Wine Biotechnol., University of Stellenbosch, Victoriastreet, Stellenbosch, 7600, South Africa

  • 02-18
    •   Introns specify pre-mRNA splicing factor accumulation at transcriptionally active genes.
    Kimberly Kotovic (1), Daniel Lockshon (2), Karla Neugebauer (1)
    (1) Mol. Cell Biology & Genetics, Max Planck Institute, Pfotenhauerstraße 10, Dresden, 01307, Germany; (2) Dept. of Genetics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195

  • 02-19
    •   A genetic screen for mutants defective in tDNA-mediated repression of RNA polymerase II transcription.
    Nurjana Bachman, Jef D. Boeke
    Molecular Biology and Genetics, Johns Hopkins University, 725 N. Wolfe St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA

  • 02-20
    •   Transcription and mRNA modification systems of linear pGKL plasmids.
    Václav Vopálenský, Martin Pospíšek
    Genetics and Microbiology, Charles University, Vinicná 5 , Prague, 128 44, Czech Republic

  • 02-21
    •   Transcriptional regulation during meiosis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
    Stewart White, Lesley Cunliffe, Christopher McInerny
    Biochemistry + Mol. Biology, Davidson Building, IBLS, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, Scotland, U.K.

  • 02-22
    •   A mini-activator constructed from the functional domains of the transcription factor Adr1 follows the rules of glucose repression.
    Nataly Kacherovsky, Elton Young
    Biochemistry, University of Washington, 1959 NE Pacific, Seattle, WA 98195-7350, USA

  • 02-23
    •   The yeast nua4 acetyltransferase complex contains an ing1 family growth regulator and is important for pho5 expression.
    Amine Nourani, Yannick Doyon, Rhea Utley, Stephane Allard, Jacques Côté
    Cancer Research Center, Laval University, 9 McMahon, Québec, G1R2J6, Canada

  • 02-24
    •   Investigating the effects of diazaborine treatment in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Helmut Jungwirth (1), Brigitte Pertschy (1), Rene Köffel (1), Nicole Hauser (2), Helmut Bergler (1), Gregor Högenauer (1)
    (1) Institut für Molekularbiologie, Karl- Franzens-Universität, Universitätsplatz 2, Graz, A-8010, Austria; (2) DKFZ, Heidelberg



    03 - Translation

  • 03-01
    •   Repression of GCN4 mRNA translation by nitrogen starvation in S. cerevisiae.
    Ralph Pries, Olav Grundmann, Hans-Ulrich Mösch, Gerhard H. Braus
    Molecular Microbiology, Microbiology and Genetics, Grisebachstrasse 8, Goettingen, 37077, Germany

  • 03-02
    •   Induction of [PSI]-like factor in Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with substitution of SUP35 for its homologue from Pichia is in part PIN- independent.
    Sergey P. Zadorsky, Julia V. Sopova, Sergey G. Inge-Vechtomov
    Dept. of genetics and breeding, St-Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya 7/9, St-Petersburg , 199034, Russia

  • 03-03
    •   Conservation of translation termination factor eRF3 in evolution: mouse eRF3m2 but not eRF3m1 could functionally substitute yeast eRF3.
    Olga Zemlyanko (1), Cathy Le Goff (2), Michel Philippe (2), Galina Zhouravleva (1)
    (1) Department of Genetics, St.Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, 199034 Russia; (2) University Rennes 1 CNRS UPR 41, 2 av. Pr. Leon Bernard 35043 Rennes cedex, France

  • 03-04
    •   RNA-binding proteins in yeast mitochondria.
    Claudia Deumer (1), Hans van der Spek (2), Gerhard Rödel (1)
    (1) Institute of Genetics, University of Technology Dresd, Mommsenstr. 13, Dresden, 01062, Germany; (2) Section for Molecular Biology, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 318, NL-1098 SM Amsterdam

  • 03-05
    •   Dual function of Hcr1p in processing of 20S pre-rRNA and in translation initiation
    Leos Valasek (1), Jiri Hasek (2), Klaus H. Nielsen (1), Alan G. Hinnebusch (1)
    (1) Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Development, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; (2) Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, the Czech Republic

  • 03-06
    •    Translation termination in the yeast mitochondrial system: Ambiguity mutations in the MRF1 gene encoding release factor.
    Joanna Towpik, Agnieszka Chacinska, Magdalena Boguta
    Department of Genetics, IBB PAS, Pawinskiego 5a, Warsaw, 02 106, Poland

  • 03-07
    •   Nonsense and frameshift suppression by natural and genetically reconstructed yeast prions.
    Sergey Inge-Vechtomov, Andrey Borchsenius, Sergey Zadorsky, Julia Sopova, Gennady Polozkov, Vladimir Alenin, Aleksandr Zekhnov, Ilya Tribunskih
    Genetics and Breeding, St-Petersburg State University, University emb. 7/9, St-Petersburg, 199034, Russia

  • 03-08
    •   Subunits of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae NatB and NatC N -terminal acetyltransferases.
    Bogdan Polevoda, Tom Cardillo, Fred Sherman
    Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester , 601 Elmwood Ave., Rochester, NY 14642, USA

  • 03-09
    •   Study of the three structural and functional domains of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ribosomal phosphoprotein P0.
    Cruz Santos, Jorge Pérez-Fernández, Miguel A. Rodríguez-Gabriel, Esther Guarinos, J.P.G. Ballesta
    C.B.M. CSIC-UAM Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Cantoblanco 28049. Madrid. Spain

  • 03-10
    •   The third prion-like determinant involved in the control of translation accuracy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ?.
    Kirill Volkov (1), Anna Aksenova (1), Malle Soom (1), Kirill Osipov (1), Anton Svitin (1), Irina Shkundina (2), Sergey Inge-Vechtomov (1), Ludmila Mironova (1)
    (1) dept. of Genetics, St.Petersburg St. University , University emb., 7/9, St.Petersburg , 199034, Russia; (2) Institute of Experimental Cardiology, Cardiology Research Center, 3. Cherepkovskaya str., 15A, Moscow, 121552, Russia

  • 03-11
    •    The NOB phenotype, associated growth deformities and cytoskeletal organization in S. pombe. .
    Lida Hashemzadeh-Bonehi, Simon Morley, Virgina Pain
    School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Biology Road, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK

  • 03-12
    •   Dual functions of the tRNA(m 5 U 54 )methyltransferase in tRNA maturation.
    Marcus J.O. Johansson, Anders S. Byström
    Dept. of Microbiology, Umeå University, Umeå University, Umeå, 901 87, Sweden

  • 03-13
    •   A novel characteristics of [PSI + ].
    Donaldas Citavicius, Rasa Rakauskaite
    Microbiology and Plant physiol, State University, Ciurlionio 21/27, Vilnius, LT-2009, Lithuania

  • 03-14
    •   Identification of internal ribosome entry sites in yeast using a novel approach .
    Irit Paz, Mordechai Choder
    Molecular Microbiology , Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

  • 03-15
    •   Identification of a minimal catalytic fragment of eIF2B epsilon, the guanine-nucleotide exchange factor for translation initiation.
    Graham D. Pavitt (1), Sarah Mohammad (2), Edith Gomez (3)
    (1) ; (2) Biomolecular Sciences, UMIST, Sackville St, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK; (3) School of Life sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 5EH, UK

  • 03-16
    •   Ribosomal protein Grc5p links the translational machinery to components of lipid metabolism.
    Michaela Eder (1), Kamil Oender (1), Edith Doppler (1), Michael Loeffler (1), Franco Fasiolo (2), Peter Eckl (1), Michael Breitenbach (1), Lore Koller (1)
    (1) Dept. of Genetics, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, Salzburg, 5020, Austria; (2) IBMC, 15, Rue R.Descartes, F_67084 Strasbourg cedex

  • 03-17
    •   Fusel alcohols inhibit translation via a novel eIF2B-dependent control mechanism.
    Mark P. Ashe (1), John W. Slaven (1), Susan K. De Long (2), Salma Ibrahimo (1), Alan B. Sachs (2)
    (1) Biomolecular Sciences, UMIST, Sackville St., Manchester, M60 1QD, UK; (2) Molecular and Cell Biology, 401 Barker Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3202

  • 03-18
    •   Overproduction of homologous gene RPG1/TIF32 from Schizosaccharomyces pombe causes aberrant cell morphology of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells.
    Ivana Janatova, Zdenek Koubek, Katerina Malinska, Radka Rakova, Jiri Hasek
    Lab. of Cell Reproduction, Institute of Microbiology, Videnska 1083, Prague 4, Cz-142 20, Czech Republic



    04 - Gene Expression

  • 04-01
    •   Mechanisms of transcriptional activation by Rap1p.
    Benjamin Piña, Fatima Idrissi, Natalia Garcia-Reyero
    Biologia Molecular i Cel.lular, IBMB-CSIC, Jordi Girona, 18, Barcelona, 08034, Spain

  • 04-02
    •   Investigation of yeast K2 preprotoxin gene expression and function.
    Elena Serviene, Vytautas Melvydas
    Laboratory of Genetics, Institute of Botany, Z. Ezeru 49, Vilnius, 2021, Lithuania

  • 04-03
    •   A nuclear actin-related protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Act3p/Arp4, is involved in transcriptional regulation.
    Yukako Oma (1), Ryo Mochizuki (1), Ulrike Wintersberger (2), Masahiko Harata (1)
    (1) Dept. Mol. Cell Biol., Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, 981-8555, Japan; (2) Institute of Tumor Biology and Cancer Research, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

  • 04-04
    •   Mutational analysis of yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae K2 killer preprotoxin gene.
    Gintare Gulbiniene, Tautvile Jokantaite, Algimantas Lebionka, Vytautas Melvydas
    Laboratory of Genetics, Institute of Botany, Zaliuju ezeru 49, Vilnius, LT-2021, Lithuania

  • 04-05
    •   Mutational analysis of the putative ATP-binding pocket of Act3p/Arp4, a nuclear actin-related protein of the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, involved in transcription regulation.
    Irene Goerzer, Erich Heidenreich, Peter Frank, Ulrike Wintersberger
    Moleculare Genetics, Institute of Cancer Research, Borschkegasse 8a, Vienna, A-1090, Austria

  • 04-06
    •   Transcription factors under the control of the yeast Hog1 MAPK.
    Laura Casadomé, Eulàlia de Nadal, Francesc Posas
    Dept Ciències experimentals , Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Dr. Aiguader 80, Barcelona, 08003, Spain

  • 04-07
    •   Regulating promoter occupancy by the yeast cell cycle regulators Fkh1p and Fkh2p.
    Peter C. Hollenhorst, Gregory Pietz, Catherine A. Fox
    Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 1300 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706-1532, United States

  • 04-08
    •   Transcription patterns of plasma membrane H + -ATPase encoding genes, PMA1 and PMA2 , in cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cultivated under respiratory or fermentative metabolism and during transition to the stationary phase.
    Alexandra R Fernandes, Isabel Sá-Correia
    Centro Eng. Biológica Química, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, Lisbon, 1049-001, Portugal

  • 04-09
    •   Improving the reproducibility of transcriptome analyses using oligonucleotide arrays.
    Matthew Piper, Pascale Daran-Lapujade, Johannes van Dijken, Jack Pronk
    Kluyver Laboratory of Biotech, TU Delft, Julianalaan 67, Delft, 2628BC, The Nethrlands

  • 04-10
    •   Comparison of two Saccharomyces cerevisiae lab strains’ genomes using oligonucleotide micro-arrays.
    Pascale Daran-Lapujade, Matthew Piper, Johannes van Dijken, Jack Pronk
    Kluyver laboratory of biotech, Technical University of Delft, Julianalaan, 67, Delft, 2628 BC, The Netherlands

  • 04-11
    •   Hexokinase 2-dependent signalling pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Fernando Moreno, Tamara de la Cera, Pilar Herrero
    Biochemistry and Mol. Biol., University of Oviedo, Campus del Cristo, Oviedo, 33006, Spain

  • 04-12
    •   A downstream regulatory element located within the coding sequence mediates autoregulated expression of the yeast fatty acid synthase gene FAS2 by the FAS1 gene product.
    Christian Wagner, Peter Wenz, Sabine Schwank, Hans-Joachim Schüller
    Dept. Genetics/Biochemistry, Institute of Microbiology, Jahnstrasse 15a, Greifswald, D-17487, Germany

  • 04-13
    •   Isolation of GCR1 , a major transcription factor of glycolytic genes, from Kluyveromyces lactis .
    Hiroshi Uemura, Robin Haw, ArunaDevi Yarragudi
    Molecular and Cell Biology, AIST, Higashi 1-1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305- 8566, Japan

  • 04-14
    •   Regulation of the stress response genes SSA3 and HSP26 at the diauxic transition in S. cerevisiae .
    Mara Amorós, Francisco Estruch
    Bioquímica y Biología Molecul., Universidad de Valencia, Dr. Moliner 50, Burjassot, 46100, Spain

  • 04-15
    •    AZF1 links CLN3 transcription to large-scale gene regulation by carbon source.
    Laura Newcomb, Charles Nicholson, Brian Morton, Matthew Slattery, Tracy Laabs, Warren Heideman
    Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, 425 N. Charter St., Madison, WI 53706, United States of America

  • 04-16
    •   Regulation of cell wall dynamics in Candida albicans by CPH1 and EFG1 , two transcription factors essential for virulence.
    Kai Sohn, Constantin Urban, Herwig Brunner, Steffen Rupp
    NWG1, Fraunhofer IGB, Nobelstr.12, Stuttgart, 70569, Germany

  • 04-17
    •    SCK1 Gene of Kluyveromyces lactis, Multicopy Suppressor of the Casein Kinase I Mutation rag8, codes for a Product homologous to the E-box DNA Binding Protein Sgc1p of Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    marc Lemaire (1), Anouchka Guyon (2), Svätopluk Betina (3), Micheline Wésolowski-Louvel (1)
    (1) Génétique et Microbiologie, UCB Lyon1, 43 Bd du 11 novembre, Villeurbanne, 69622, FRANCE; (2) Station génétique et amélioration des plantes, INRA, Route de St Cyr, 78026 Versailles cedex, FRANCE; (3) Cancer research Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA

  • 04-18
    •   Transcriptional regulation of thiamine biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Stuart Savill, Kerry Byrne, Peter Meacock
    Genetics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

  • 04-19
    •   Chromatin structure and regulation of the S. cerevisiae ADH2 gene derepression.
    Micaela Caserta, Loredana Verdone, Barbara Chiappini, Barbara Xella, Ernesto Di Mauro
    Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Roma, 00185, Italy

  • 04-20
    •    Saccharomyces cerevisiae JEN1 expression: catabolite regulation of transcription and mRNA turnover.
    Raquel P. Andrade, Margarida Casal
    Departamento de Biologia, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, 4710-057, Portugal

  • 04-21
    •   The genomic expression program during lag phase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Jeanette Brejning, Lene Jespersen, Nils Arneborg
    Dep. of Dairy and Food Science, Royal Vet. and Agric. Univ., Rolighedsvej 30, 4., Frederiksberg C, 1958, Denmark

  • 04-22
    •   Different transcriptional activators regulating the same yeast gene act by different effects on nucleosomes of the promoter.
    Oliver Valerius, Cornelia Brendel, Gerhard H. Braus
    Inst. of Microbiol. & Genet. , G-A-University Goettingen, Grisebachstr. 8, Goettingen, 37077, Germany

  • 04-23
    •   Identification and analysis of genes required for sensitivity to killer toxins by using mTn insertion library.
    Chise Suzuki, Jun Shima, Shinichi Kawamoto
    Applied Microbiology, National Food Res Institute, 2-1-12 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305- 8642, Japan

  • 04-24
    •   Transcriptional analysis of the genomic Ty1 elements in S. cerevisiae .
    Antonin Morillon, Christine Sacerdot, Mathias Springer, Pascale Lesage
    IBPC-UPR9073, CNRS, 13, rue P et M Curie, Paris, F-75005, France

  • 04-25
    •   Biotin-dependent regulation of the biotin (vitamin H) transporter VHT1 .
    Matthias Weider, Franz Klebl, Norbert Sauer
    Molecular Plant Physiology, University Erlangen, Staudtstrasse 5, Erlangen, 91058, Germany

  • 04-26
    •   The role of linker histone H1 in the regulation of gene expression.
    Hugh Patterton, Claudette Coert
    Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Cape Town, Main Road, Cape Town, 7700, South Africa

  • 04-27
    •   Study of genes encoding yeast zinc cluster proteins by phenotypic and microarray analysis.
    Bernard Turcotte, Bassel Akache, Keqiang Wu, Karen Hellauer, Esther Prince, Sarah McPhearson
    Medicine, McGill University, 687 Pine Ave. West, Montreal, H3A 1A1, Canada

  • 04-28
    •   The node between carbon and nitrogen metabolism: the GDH1 transcriptional regulation.
    Lina Riego, Alicia González
    Instituto Fisiología Celular, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 70-242, México, DF, 04510, México

  • 04-29
    •   Expression of GUP1 and GUP2 , Saccharomyces cerevisiae glycerol active transport genes.
    Rui Oliveira, Cândida Lucas
    Department of Biology, University of Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, 4710-057, Portugal

  • 04-30
    •   Characterization of an evolutionarily conserved interaction between Snw1, the fission yeast homolog of the steroid receptor coactivator SKIP, and the novel cyclophilin Cyp2.
    Frantisek Puta, Monika Ambrozkova, Michal Skruzny, Iva Fukova, Katerina Martinkova, Petr Folk
    Physiology & Devel. Biology, Charles University, Vinicna 7, Praha 2, 128 00, Czech Republic

  • 04-31
    •   Functional interplay between the SAGA co-activator and the Ssn6-Tup1 co-repessor on the yeast GAL1 promoter .
    Manolis Papamichos-Chronakis, Theodoros Petrakis , Dimitris Tzamarias
    IMBB, FORTH, Vassilika Vouton, Heraklion, Crete, 711 10, Greece

  • 04-32
    •   Pho23 is a component of the Rpd3 HDAC complex and is required for normal regulation of gene silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Robbie Loewith (1), Jeffrey S. Smith (2), Maria Meijer (1), Tiffany J. Williams (2), Nurjana Bachman (3), Jef D. Boeke (3), Dallan Young (1)
    (1) Biochemistry & Molecular Biol., Univeristy of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr. NW, Calgary, AB, T2N4N1, Canada; (2) Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Virgina, Jordan Hall, Box 800733, Charlottesville, VA 22908-0733; (3) Molecular Biology & Genetics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205

  • 04-33
    •   Functional domains of Gln3p, a GATA-family transcription activator in S. cerevisiae .
    Ajit Kulkarni, Ashraf T. Abul-Hamd, Rajendra Rai, Terrance G. Cooper
    Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee, 858 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38163, U.S.A.

  • 04-34
    •   The UASs in the promoter of the FBP1 gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae respond differently to the regulatory proteins Cat8 and Sip4.
    Juana M Gancedo, Oscar Zaragoza
    Inst. Invest. Biomedicas, CSIC-UAM, Arturo Duperier 4, Madrid, 28029, Spain

  • 04-35
    •   Mac1p interacting proteins reveal novel copper-independent Mac1p regulation.
    Alexandra Voutsina, Kalliopi Gkouskou, Yannis Kagiampakis, George S. Fragiadakis, Despina Alexandraki
    Biology/Yeast Mol. Genetics, FORTH-IMBB and Univ. of Crete, P.O. Box 1527, Heraklion, 711 10, Greece

  • 04-36
    •   REGULATION of the expression of ade2 gene in fission yeast.
    Güler Temizkan (1), Tuba Günel (2), Cenk Kig (1), Semian Karaer (1)
    (1) University of Istanbul, Department of Biology, Vezneciler, Istanbul, 34459, Turkey; (2) University of Istanbul, Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Research and Application Centre, 34459 Vezneciler Istanbul-TURKEY

  • 04-37
    •   Analysis of the Schwanniomyces occidentalis SWA2 gene promoter in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Teresa A. Carmona, Patricia Barrado, Angela Peiroten, Eloisa Sanz, Antonio Jiménez, María Fernández Lobato
    Dpto. Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain

  • 04-38
    •   EXPRESSION of PGL1 gene in Saccharomyces strains.
    Sabine Gognies, gwénola Simon, abdel Belarbi
    general and molecular Microbio, University of Reims, moulin de la housse, REIMS BP 1039, 51 687 , France

  • 04-39
    •   Antagonistic remodelling by Swi-Snf and Tup1-Ssn6 of an extensive chromatin domain determines gene expression.
    Alastair Fleming, Sari Pennings
    Dept of Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9XD, UK

  • 04-40
    •   GCN5 AND ITS BROMODOMAIN INTERACTIONS WITH HISTONE N-TERMINI.
    Paola Ballario (1), Prisca Ornaghi (1), AnnaMaria Lena (1), Emanuela De Cinti (1), Alicia Gonzalez (2), Patrizia Filetici (1)
    (1) Dip.Genetica e Biologia molecolare and Centro Acidi Nucleici CNR,Universita' La Sapienza, Roma, Piaz.A.Moro 5,00185 Rome Italy; (2) Dept de Genetica Molecular,UNAM, Ap. Postal 70-242.Mexico DF.Mx

  • 04-41
    •   Production of polyomavirus capsid protein VP1 in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae under different inducible promoters.
    Tomas Adamec, Lukas Synek, Zdena Palkova, Jitka Forstova
    Dpt. Genetics and Microbiology, Charles University, Vinicna 5, Prague 2, 128 44 , Czech Republic

  • 04-42
    •   Human p53 expression in yeast : a case of translational control mediated by an interaction between a 5'UTR and ORF mRNA structures.
    Raja Mokdad-Gargouri (1), Khmaies Belhaj (2), Ali Gargouri (1)
    (1) LGME, Sfax Biotechnology Center , Sokra , Sfax, K3038, TUNISIA; (2) Bilkent University, Ankara - Turkey

  • 04-43
    •   Regulation of the yeast PDR5 ABC transporter during diauxic shift.
    Yasmine Mamnun, Christoph Schüller, Karl Kuchler
    Molecular Genetics, Inst. of Medical Biochemistry, Dr.Bohrgasse, Vienna, A-1030, Austria

  • 04-44
    •   Cis-acting elements responsible for GAT1 expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Roopa Andhare, Kathleen H. Cox, Rajendra Rai, Terrance Cooper
    Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee, 858 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38163, U.S.A.



    05 - Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics

  • 05-01
    •   Sequencing and Functional Analysis of the 6,083 bp Genomic DNA Segment of Hansenula polymorpha Containing the YPT1 and PMI40 genes.
    Moowoong Kim (1), Michael O. Agaphonov (2), Jeong-Yoon Kim (3), Sang-Ki Rhee (1), Hyun Ah Kang (1)
    (1) Microbial and Bioprocess Egineering Lab., Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Oun-dong 52, Yusong-gu, Taejon, 305- 600, Korea; (2) Institute of Experimental Cardiology, Cardiology Research center, 3rd Cherepkovskaya Str. 15A, 121552 Moscow, Russia; (3) Department of Microbiology, Chungnam National University, Teajon 305-764, Korea

  • 05-02
    •   YPL.db: A web archive for protein localization data from yeast.
    Georg Habeler (1), Klaus Natter (2), Gerhard G. Thallinger (1), Paul Wach (1), Zlatko Trajanoski (1), Sepp D. Kohlwein (2)
    (1) Department of Biophysics, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Graz University of Technology Inffeldgasse 18, 8010 Graz; (2) Dep. of Biochemistry, Graz University of Technology, Petersgasse 12, Graz, 8010, Austria

  • 05-03
    •   Study of Global Gene Expression Patterns During the Fission Yeast Cell Cycle Using DNA Microarrays.
    Gabriella Rustici, Jurg Bahler
    Fission yeast postgenomics, The Sanger Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK

  • 05-04
    •   Identification of mechanisms of action of anticancer drugs using the complete pool of homozygous deletions in yeast.
    Geoff W. Birrell (1), Toru Shibata (1), Guri Giaever (2), Ronald W. Davis (2), J. Martin Brown (1)
    (1) Dept. Radiation Oncology , Stanford University, 269 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, US; (2) Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University

  • 05-05
    •   yMGV : a database for visualisation and data mining of published genome-wide yeast expression data.
    Philippe Marc, Frederic Devaux, Claude Jacq
    Labo de genetique moleculaire, Ecole Normale Superieure, 46, rue d'Ulm, Paris, 75005, FRANCE

  • 05-06
    •   Changes in the yeast transcriptome on impairing protein mannosylation.
    Nianshu Zhang (1), Bharat Rash (1), Andrea Short (2), WonHee Jung (2), Andrew Hayes (1), Mike Cornell (3), Steve Oliver (1), Lubomira Stateva (2)
    (1) School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, 2.205 Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK; (2) Dept of Biomolecular Sciences, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK; (3) University of Manchester, Department of Computer Sciences, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

  • 05-07
    •   Studies of cAMP-mediated changes of the cell wall proteome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Dawn Jones (1), Isabel Riba-Garcia (2), Susan Francis (2), Simon Gaskell (2), Lubomira Stateva (1)
    (1) Dept of Biomolecular Sciences, UMIST, Po Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QD, UK; (2) Department of Chemistry, UMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, UK

  • 05-08
    •   Comprehensive analysis of the yeast stationary phase transcriptome.
    Jian Wu, Nianshu Zhang, Andrew Hayes, Philip Butler, Stephen Oliver
    Biological sciences, Manchester University, Oxford road, Manchester, M13 9PT, United Kingdom

  • 05-09
    •   Functional analysis of the yeast homologue of mammalian Neuropathy Target Esterase.
    Oliver Zaccheo, Paul Glynn, Peter Meacock
    Genetics, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

  • 05-10
    •   Functional analysis of the S.cerevisiae ORF YCR086w .
    Monika Wysocka, Ewa Grzybowska
    Genetics, IBB PAS, Pawinskiego 5A, Warsaw, 02-106, Poland

  • 05-11
    •   Comprehensive functional analysis of three gene families reveals new biosynthetic pathways for B1 and B6 vitamins in yeast.
    José E. Pérez-Ortín (1), Susana Rodríguez-Navarro (1), María Teresa Rodríguez-Manzaneque (2), Enrique Herrero (2), Bertrand Llorente (3), Bernard Dujon (3), Anna Ramne (4), Per Sunnerhagen (4)
    (1) Bioquímica Biología Molecular, Universitat de València, C/Dr Moliner 50, Burjassot, E46100, Spain; (2) Departament de Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat de Lleida, Rovira Roure 44. E-25198 Lleida. Spain; (3) Unité de Génétique Moléculaire des Levures (URA 2171 du CNRS, UFR 927 Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; (4) Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Lundberg Laboratory, Göteborg University. P.O. Box 462 S-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden

  • 05-12
    •   Discovering novel mammalian functional homologues to essential Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes.
    Nianshu Zhang (1), Mike Osborn (2), Paul Gitsham (1), Ross Miller (3), Stephen Oliver (1)
    (1) Biochemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Street, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK; (2) The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge  CB2 4AT , UK; (3) The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge CB2 4AT, UK

  • 05-13
    •   TRANSFAC ® _YEAST.
    Holger Michael (1), Susanne Thiele (2), Edgar Wingender (1)
    (1) Working group Bioinformatics, GBF, Mascheroder Weg 1, Braunschweig, D-38124, Germany; (2) Biobase Biological Databases GmbH, Mascheroder Weg 1b, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany

  • 05-14
    •   ORF YML125c encodes a putative NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase which is essential in yeast S. cerevisiae .
    Anna Chelstowska, Dorota Grabowska, Joanna Rytka
    Genetics, IBB PAN, Pawinskiego 5A, Warsaw, 02-106, Poland

  • 05-15
    •   Global responses of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to different glucose signals.
    Z. Yin (1), H. Tournu (2), N. Hauser (3), J. Hoheisel (2), A.J.P. Brown (1)
    (1) Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, Scotland, UK.; (2) Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK; (3) Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 506, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany

  • 05-16
    •   Changes in Global Gene Expression in Yeast S. cerevisiae in Response to Coal Tar.
    Deming Xu (1), Deborah Brooker (2), Alice Pham (1), Brian McCarry (3), Bryan McNeil (4), James Friesen (1), Thomas Yager (5)
    (1) BBDMR, University of Toronto, 112 College St. #309, Toronto, ON M5G 1L6, Canada; (2) Ministry of Environment, Goverment of Ontario, Toronto, ON; (3) Department of Chemistry, McMaster University, Halmiton, ON; (4) Toronto Microarray Consortium, UHN, Toronto, ON; (5) Naiad Systems Inc., Mississauga, ON

  • 05-17
    •   Interrelationships between alcohol oxidation pathways, redox balance, and gene expression in S.cerevisiae .
    Eshantha Salgado (1), Andrew Hayes (2), Alexandra Walijew (2), Michael Cornell (3), Stephen G. Oliver (2), J. Richard Dickinson (1), Daniela Delneri (2)
    (1) Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, PO Box 915, Cardiff, CF10 3TL, UK; (2) School of Biological Science, University of Manchester, 2.205 Stopford building, Oxford rd, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK; (3) Department of Computer Science University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

  • 05-18
    •   Number and coding probability of short ORFs in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome.
    Pawel Mackiewicz (1), Maria Kowalczuk (1), Dorota Szczepanik (1), Miroslaw Dudek (2), Stanislaw Cebrat (1)
    (1) Institute of Microbiology, University of Wroclaw, Przybyszewskiego 63, Wroclaw, 51-148, Poland; (2) Institute of Physics, Pedagogical University, 65-069 Zielona Góra, Poland

  • 05-19
    •   The origin of duplicated genes in yeast.
    R. B. Langkjær and J. Piškur
    BioCentrum-DTU, Section of Molecular Microbiology, Technical University of Denmark, Building 301, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark;

  • 05-20
    •   Global proteomic adaptation for optimal sulfur economy in response to cadmium toxicity.
    Mirene Fauchon, Karin Vido, Gilles Lagniel, Jean-Christophe Aude, Michel Toledano, Michel Werner, Jean Labarre
    DBCM, CEA, Centre de Saclay, Gif sur Yvette, 91191, FRANCE

  • 05-21
    •   Phenotic screen and automated handling of the yeast-genome set of gene disruptions.
    Nicolas Page (1), Amy Tong (2), Matthias Peter (1), Charlie Boone (2), Howard Bussey (3)
    (1) ISREC, Ch. des Boveresses 155, Epalinges, 1066, Switzerland; (2) University of Toronto, Banting and Best Department of Medical Research, 112 College St., Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1L6; (3) Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Qc, Canada H3A 1B1

  • 05-22
    •   Analysis of yeast proteins using protein chips.
    Heng Zhu (1), James Klemic (2), Metin Bilgin (1), David Hall (1), Paul Bertone (1), Mark Gerstein (3), Mark Reed (2), Michael Snyder (1)
    (1) MCDB, Yale University, 219 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06520, United States; (2) Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yale University; (3) Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

  • 05-23
    •    In vivo site-directed mutagenesis using oligonucleotides: a versatile system for functional genomics.
    Francesca Storici, L. Kevin Lewis, Michael A. Resnick
    LMG, NIEHS, 111 Alexander Dr., RTP, NC 27709, USA

  • 05-24
    •   The BioKnowledge ™ Library: an Integrated Collection of Databases for Model Organism and Human Proteomes.
    Marek Skrzypek, Jodi Hirschman, Martha Arnaud, Maria Costanzo, Philip Olsen, Laura Robertson, Janice Kranz, James Garrels
    Yeast Proteome Database, Proteome-Incyte Genomics, Inc., 100 Cummings Center, Beverly, MA 01915, USA

  • 05-25
    •   Whole genome expression analysis of colony morphology in vineyard isolates of Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Duccio Cavalieri (1), Jeffrey Townsend (2), Mario Polsinelli (3), Daniel Hartl (2)
    (1) Center For Genomic Research, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge Ma, 02138; (2) Department of Organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge Ma 02138.; (3) Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, Via Romana 17-19, 50125, Firenze, Italia.

  • 05-26
    •    A parallel genetic approach to identify sporulation and germination mutants in yeast .
    Adam Deutschbauer (1), Roy Williams (2), Angela Chu (1), Ronald Davis (1)
    (1) Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University, School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; (2) Diversa, 4599 Directors Place, San Diego, CA 92121

  • 05-27
    •   Fine-mapping and functional characterization of a complex genetic trait.
    Lars Steinmetz (1), Dan Richards (1), John McCusker (2), Himanshu Sinha (2), Jamie Spiegelman (3), Peter Oefner (3), Ronald Davis (1)
    (1) Department of Genetics, Stanford University, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; (2) Department of Microbiology, 3020, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA; (3) Stanford Genome Technology Center, 855 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA

  • 05-28
    •   Creation of the Yeast FLEX (Full-Length Expression) Library.
    Gerald Marsischky (1), Aaron Richardson (1), Catherine Hogel (1), John Weger (2), Leonardo Brizuela (1), Joshua Labaer (1), Ed Harlow (1), Richard Kolodner (2)
    (1) BCMP/Institute of Proteomics, Harvard Medical School, 240 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; (2) Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, UCSD School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA USA 92093

  • 05-29
    •   Genome-wide location of the MAPK-activated transcription factor Ste12p is condition dependent.
    Julia Zeitlinger, Itamar Simon, Christopher T. Harbison, Nancy Hannett, Thomas L. Volkert, Richard A. Young
    Whitehead Institute, M.I.T., 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

  • 05-30
    •   Systematic analysis of sporulation phenotypes in yeast deletion mutants.
    Michael Breitenbach, Peter Briza, Edith Bogengruber, Albert Thür
    Department of Genetics, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr. 34a, Salzburg, 5020, Austria

  • 05-31
    •   Phenotypic analysis of strains deleted for genes with unknown function: data and general reasoning.
    Michele M. Bianchi (1), Geppo Sartori (2), Francesca Ciceroni (1), Micheline Vandenbol (3), Giovanna Carignani (4), Piotr. P. Slonimski (5), Laura Frontali (1)
    (1) Cell & Developmental Biology, University Rome

  • 05-32
    •   A structural genomics pilot project : study of 200 yeast's ORFs.
    Sophie Quevillon-Cheruel (1), Bruno Collinet (1), Congzhao Zhou (1), Anne Poupon (2), Ines Li de la Sierre-Gallay (2), Joel Janin (2), Karine Blondeau (3), Michel Jacquet (3)
    (1) Laboratoire de Modélisation et d'Ingénierie des Protéines - Orsay, France; (2) Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales - CNRS - Gif- sur-Yvette, France; (3) Institut de Génétique et Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie - Orsay, France

  • 05-33
    •    Schizosaccharomyces pombe partial gua1 gene for IMP dehydrogenase.
    Semian Karaer (1), Aysegül Topal-Sarýkaya (2), Güler Temizkan (2)
    (1) , University of Istanbul Department of Biology, 34459 Vezneciler, Istanbul, TURKEY; (2) University of Istanbul Department of Biology, 34459 Vezneciler, Istanbul, TURKEY

  • 05-34
    •   A stochastic molecular model of the fission yeast cell cycle.
    Akos Sveiczer (1), John J. Tyson (2), Bela Novak (1)
    (1) Department of Agricultural Chemical Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 1111 Budapest, Szt. Gellert ter 4., Hungary; (2) Department of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

  • 05-35
    •   Systematic discovery of new genes in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome.
    Marco Kessler, Qiandong Zeng, Sarah Hogan, Robin Cook, Debra Willins, Arturo Morales, Guillaume Cottarel
    Pathogen Genetics, Genome Therapeutics Corp., 100 Beaver Street, Waltham, MA 02453-8443, USA



    06 - Nuclear Structures and Associated Functions

  • 06-01
    •   Molecular Dissection of Protein-Protein Interactions in the U3 snoRNP.
    Jennifer E.G. Gallagher, Susan J. Baserga
    Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06520, US

  • 06-02
    •   A novel protein complex controls kinetochore clustering and checkpoint function in budding yeast.
    Carsten Janke (1), Jennifer Ortíz (2), Johannes Lechner (2), Anna Shevchenko (3), Andrej Shevchenko (3), Maria M. Magiera (1), Carolin Schramm (1), Elmar Schiebel (1)
    (1) The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, CRC Beatson Laboratories, Glasgow G61 1BD, UK; (2) Biochemistry-Center, Ruprecht-Karls University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; (3) Peptide & Protein Group, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, 69012 Heidelberg, Germany

  • 06-03
    •   Meiotic Nuclear Behavior in Large-Spored Metschnikowia Species.
    Gaelle Marinoni, Marc-Andre Lachance
    Department of Plant Sciences, University of Western Ontario, Richmond Street N., London, N6A 5B7, Canada

  • 06-04
    •   Top1p and Sir2p affect chromatin structure of rDNA in the NTS region.
    Francesco Cioci (1), Maria Vogelauer (2), Serena Albertosi (1), Francesca Di Felice (1), Giorgio Camilloni (1)
    (1) Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Roma La Sapienza, P.le A. Moro 5, Rome, 00185, ITALY; (2) Department of Biochemical Medicine, UCLA School od Medicine and Molecular Biology Institute, Boyer Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095 USA

  • 06-05
    •   Search for proteins interacting with Krr1p, a protein required for pre-ribosome assembly.
    Robert Gromadka, Joanna Rytka
    Genetics, IBB PAS , Pawinskiego 5A, Warsaw, 02-106, Poland

  • 06-06
    •    Functional analysis of a protein family involved in ribosomal biogenesis .
    Edith Bogengruber, Peter Briza, Michael Breitenbach
    Institute of Genetics, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr.34, Salzburg, A-5020, Austria

  • 06-07
    •   Characterization of Ecm11 nuclear protein.
    Aleksandra Comino, Apolonija Bedina Zavec, Radovan Komel
    Biosynthesis and Biotransforma, National Institute of Chemistr, Hajdrihova 19, Ljubljana, SI-1000, Slovenia

  • 06-08
    •   Identification of a novel acetyltransferase responsible for N- terminal acetylation of histones H2A and H4.
    Ok-kyu Song (3), Jakob H. Waterborg (2), Jung-Eun Kim (1), Rolf Sternglanz (3)
    (1) Life Science, POSTECH, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Pohang, 790-784, Korea; (2) School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO 66207; (3) Biochemistry and Cell Biology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5215

  • 06-09
    •   A role for an essential chromatin-remodeling complex in chromosome segregation.
    Jing-mei Hsu, Brehon Laurent
    Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY-HSCB, 450 Clarkson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11203, U.S.A.

  • 06-10
    •   Specific chromosome loss induction by centromere knockout in Saccharomyces cerevisiae followed by restitution of homozygous diploidy.
    Yuhui Zang, Massimiliano Garrè, Kresimir Gjuracic, Carlo V. Bruschi
    Microbiology, ICGEB, AREA Science Park, Trieste, I-34012, ITALY



    07 - Organelles and Associated Functions

  • 07-01
    •   Characterization of two yeast mitochondrial proteins, Mrs2p and Lpe10p.
    Juraj Gregan (1), Rudolf Schweyen (2)
    (1) Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, United Kingdom; (2) Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Vienna Biocenter, Dr. Bohr-Gasse 9/4, A-1030 Vienna, Austria

  • 07-02
    •   Identification of synthetic lethal mutants in a yeast strain deleted for the frataxin homologue encoding gene, YFH1 .
    Martin Kucej (1), Francoise Foury (2)
    (1) Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science CU, Mlynska dolina Ch-1, Bratislava, 84215, Slovak Republic; (2) Unite de Biochimie Physiologique, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  • 07-03
    •   Mitochondrial signalization under the extreme condition I. Is the double ADP/ATP translocator mutant in combination with rho- lethal ? How to rescue “death cells”.
    Veronika Fekete, Eva Mäsiarová, Pavol Sulo
    Department of Biochemistry , Comenius University, Mlynská Dolina, Bratislava, 842 15, Slovakia

  • 07-04
    •   Yeast organelle engineering II. How the alien mitochondria and nuclei get together.
    Mário Špírek, Silvia Poláková, Denisa Škutová, Pavol Sulo
    Department of Biochemistry , Comenius University, Mlynská Dolina, Bratislava, 842 15, Slovakia

  • 07-05
    •   Characterization of yeast SEC14 homologues.
    Martina Schnabl (1), Peter Griac (2), Barbara Brezna (2), Harald Pichler (1), Sepp D. Kohlwein (3), Fritz Paltauf (1), Guenther Daum (1)
    (1) Department of Biochemistry, University of Technology, Petersgasse 12/2, Graz, 8010, Austria; (2) Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics, Ivanka pri Dunajii, Slovak Republic; (3) University of Technology, Department of Biochemistry, and SFB Biomembrane Research Center

  • 07-06
    •   Assembly of phosphatidylethanolamine into mitochondrial membranes.
    Ruth Nebauer, Ruth Birner, Maria Buergermeister, Roger Schneiter, Guenther Daum
    Department of Biochemistry, University of Technology, Petersgasse 12/2, Graz, 8010, Austria

  • 07-07
    •   Development of a genetic screen to isolate mutants disturbed in peroxisomal membrane protein targeting.
    Astrid Kragt (1), Jörg H. Eckert (2), Nils Johnsson (2), Ben Distel (1)
    (1) Department of Biochemistry, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 15, Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, The Netherlands; (2) Max-Delbrück-Laboratorium, Carl-von- Linné-Weg 10, D-50829 Köln, Germany

  • 07-08
    •   Translational activator proteins of cytochrome b synthesis: characterization of interactions.
    Kathrin Tzschoppe, Udo Krause-Buchholz, Gerhard Roedel
    University of Technology, Institute of Genetics, Mommsenstr. 13, Dresden, D-01062, Germany

  • 07-09
    •   Oxygen radicals accumulation and viability of yeast cells expressing Bax and Bcl-X.
    Daniela Poliakova (1), Ingrid Kissova (2), Ludmila Sabova (1), Vladimir Pevala (2), Jordan Kolarov (2)
    (1) Cancer Research Institute, Slovak Academy of Science; (2) Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

  • 07-11
    •   Functional complementation of the yeast MMD1 gene mutation by the goat UK114 cDNA.
    Alma Gedvilaite (1), Kestutis Sasnauskas (1), Vytautas Naktinis (2)
    (1) Eukaryote Genetic Engineering, Institute of Biotechnology, V.Graiciuno 8, Vilnius, LT-2028, Lithuania; (2) Biotechna UAB, V.Graiciuno 8, Vilnius LT-2028, Lithuania

  • 07-12
    •   Properties of the bongkrekic acid resistant mutants of the yeast mitochondrial adenine nucleotide carrier.
    Igor Zeman, Christine Schwimmer, Veronique Trezeguet, Guy J.-M. Lauquin
    Laboratoire PMC, IBGC, 1 rue C. Saint-Saens, Bordeaux cedex, 33077, France

  • 07-13
    •   Control of the forespore membrane biogenesis in Schizosaccharomyces pombe .
    Taro Nakamura, Michiko Kubo, Chikashi Shimoda
    Dept. Biol., Grad. Sch. Sci., Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan

  • 07-14
    •   The yeast vacuolar-(H + )-ATPase;- expression of the V 0 subunits c and c''.
    Graham Whyteside, Malcolm E Finbow
    Biological Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens road, Glasgow, G4 0BA, Scotland

  • 07-15
    •   t-loops in yeast mitochondria?.
    Lubomir Tomaska (1), Jozef Nosek (2), Alexander M. Makhov (3), Jack D. Griffith (3)
    (1) Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mlynska dolina B-1, Bratislava, 84215, Slovakia; (2) Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynska dolina CH-1, Bratislava, 84215, Slovakia; (3) Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, CB7295, Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

  • 07-16
    •   Antioxidant system within yeast peroxisome: Metabolic significance and peroxisomal transport of catalase and a novel peroxiredoxine Pmp20.
    Yasuyoshi Sakai, Hirofumi Horiguchi, Hiroya Yurimoto, Nobuo Kato
    Div. of Applied Life Sciences, Grd.Sch.of Agric., Kyoto Univ., Kitashirakawa-Oiwake, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

  • 07-17
    •   Extragenomic telomere minicircles in the yeast mitochondria: An autonomous replication via rolling-circle strategy.
    Jozef Nosek (1), Lubomir Tomaska (2)
    (1) Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynska dolina CH-1, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia; (2) Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynska dolina B-1, 84215 Bratislava, Slovakia

  • 07-18
    •   Import and assembly of peroxisomal alcohol oxidase in the yeast Hansenula polymorpha .
    Katja Gunkel, Ralf van Dijk, Klaas Nico Faber, Ida van der Klei, Marten Veenhuis
    Eukaryotic microbiology, GBB, University of Groningen, Kerklaan 30, Haren, 9751 NN, Netherlands

  • 07-19
    •   Characterization of a disulfide bound Pir-cell wall protein (Pir-CWP) of Yarrowia lipolytica and cloning of the gene that codes it.
    Lahcen Jaafar, Ismaïl Moukadiri, Maela León, Isabel Andrés, Jesús Zueco
    Unidad de Microbiología(FCWRG), Fac. Farmacia. Univ. Valencia, Avd. VA Estelles s/n, Burjassot, 46100, SPAIN

  • 07-20
    •    RHO1 ( YlRHO1 ) is a non-essential gene in Yarrowia lipolytica and complements rho1 lethality in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Maela León, Jesús Zueco
    Unidad de Microbiología(FCWRG), Fac. Farmacia. Univ. Valencia, Av. VA Estelles s/n, Burjassot, 46100, SPAIN

  • 07-21
    •    PDD4 and PPD6 encode two novel proteins involved in selective peroxisome degradation in Hansenula polymorpha .
    Iryna Monastyrska, Marten Veenhuis, Jan A.K.W. Kiel
    Eukaryotic Microbiology, GBB , University of Groningen, Kerklaan 30, Haren, 9751 NN, The Netherlands

  • 07-22
    •   Localization of the CaCHT2 gene product of Candida albicans and phenotype analysis of C.albicans strains disrupted in cacht2 and cacht3 .
    Claudia Pallotti, María Iranzo, Jose V. Cañizares, Carmen Aguado, Salvador Mormeneo
    Unidad de Microbiología(FCWRG), Fac. Farmacia. Univ. Valencia, Av. VA Estelles s/n, Burjassot, 46100, SPAIN

  • 07-23
    •   The HSP70 homologue protein colocalized with mitochondrial DNA in S. cerevisiae .
    Yuji Sakasegawa, Shoichiro Tsukita, Naomi Hachiya
    ERATO, JST, 17 ChudojiMinamimach, Kyoto, 6008813, Japan

  • 07-24
    •   Organisation of the mitochondrial genome in Phaffia rhodozyma ( Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous ).
    Ilona Pfeiffer, Zsuzsanna Hamari, Ferenc Kevei, Judit Kucsera
    Microbiology, Faculty Sciences, University of Szeged, Kozep fasor, Szeged, H-6726, Hungary

  • 07-25
    •   Yeast secretory pathway organelles are Ca 2+ and H + store compartments.
    Solange S. Samarao, C. Eduardo Teodoro, Flavia E. Silva, Anna L. Okorokova-Façanha, Lev A. Okorokov
    CBB, UENF, Alberto Lamego 2000, Campos dos Goytacazes, 28015-620, Brazil

  • 07-26
    •   Control of sterol uptake and esterification in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Lucia Hronska, Martin Valachovic, Dana Tahotna, Vlasta Klobucnikova, Ivan Hapala
    Bioenergetics, Inst.Anim.Biochem.Genet. SAS, Moyzesova 61, Ivanka p.D., 90028, Slovakia

  • 07-27
    •   Cellular cAMP levels regulate the expression of two mitochondrially coded subunits of cytochrome c oxidase.
    Christina M. Demlow (1), Thomas D. Fox (2)
    (1) ; (2) Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, 333 Biotech Building, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States

  • 07-28
    •   The GARP complex is required for retrograde transport from both early and late endosomes to the Golgi.
    Elizabeth Conibear, Tom H. Stevens
    Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon, 1229 Univ of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1229, USA

  • 07-29
    •   Micropexophagy in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris.
    Hiroyuki Mukaiyama, Nobuo Kato, Yasuyoshi Sakai
    Div.of Appl. Life Sci., Grad.Sch. of Agr. Kyoto Univ., Kitashirakawa-Oiwake, Kyoto, 606-8502, Japan

  • 07-30
    •   IDENTIFICATION of a nuclear gene (FMC1) required for the assembly/stability of yeast mitochondrial F 1 -ATPase in heat stress conditions.
    Linnka Lefebvre-Legendre (1), Jacques Vaillier (2), Jean Velours (2), Jean-Paul di Rago (2)
    (1) IBGC CNRS, 1 rue C. Saint-Saëns, 33077 Bordeaux cedex, France; (2) IBGC, CNRS, 1 rue C. Saint-Saëns, Bordeaux, 33077, France

  • 07-31
    •   The mitochondrial inner membrane peptidase complex containing Imp1, Imp2 and Som1.
    Karlheinz Esser (1), Pey-Shynan Jan (1), Georg Michaelis (1), Elke Pratje (2)
    (1) Botanisches Institut, Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, Düsseldorf, D-40225, Germany; (2) Institut für Allgemeine Botanik der Universität Hamburg, Ohnhorststr. 18, D-22609 Hamburg, Germany

  • 07-32
    •   The Saccharomyces cerevisiae MMF2 gene encodes a member of the DEAD RNA helicase family and is required for maintenance of the mitochondrial genome.
    Remy POIREY (1), Martin LOOSE (1), Massimo TOMMASSINO (2), Jean-Luc SOUCIET (3), Jean-Claude JAUNIAUX (1)
    (1) F0100 and INSERM 375, German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany; (2) Department F0200, German Cancer Research Center, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; (3) Laboratoire de Genetique et Microbiologie, UPRES-A 7010 ULP/CNRS, Institut de Botanique, 67000 Strasbourg, France

  • 07-33
    •   Nuclear regulation of mitochondrial membrane expansion requires Rem50p.
    C. Gustavo Pesce, Peter Walter
    Biochemistry, Univ. California-San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco, ca 94143-0448, USA

  • 07-34
    •   Looking Into the Mechanism of Polar mRNA Localisation in Yeast.
    Cosima Hohenlohe, Yves Barral
    Institute of Biochemistry, ETHZ, Universitätstr. 16, Zürich, 8092, Switzerland

  • 07-35
    •   Sterol uptake and trafficking in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
    Matthieu REGNACQ, Thierry FERREIRA, Parissa ALIMARDANI, Sylvaine DANDRIEUX, Julien PUARD, Thierry BERGES
    UMR CNRS6161, Université de Poitiers, Av Recteur Pineau, POITIERS CEDEX, 86022, FRANCE

  • 07-36
    • Effects of chs3 gene disruption in the bgl2- mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Daniela Laurinavichiute (1), Tatyana Kalebina (1), Philipp Gorlovoy (1), Gleb Fominov (2), Igor Kulaev (1)
    (1) Molecular Biology Department, Moscow State University, Vorobiovy Gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia; (2) Institute of Experimental Cardiology, Cardiology Research Center, 3rd Cherepkovskaya str. 15A, Moscow 121552, Russia

  • 07-37
    •   Mitochondrial effects of the pleiotropic proteasomal mutation mpr1- 1/rpn11: uncoupling from cell cycle defects in extragenic revertants.
    Teresa Rinaldi (1), Ruggero Ricordy (2), Monique Bolotin-Fukuhara (3), Laura Frontali (1)
    (1) Pasteur Institute Cenci Bolognetti Foundation, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy; (2) Centro di genetica evoluzionistica, CNR Roma; (3) Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire Bat. 400, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay



    08 - Cell Polarity and Morphogenesis

  • 08-01
    •   SRB10 Phosphorylation of STE12 Controls Filamentous Respose.
    Chris Nelson, Susan Goto, Karen Lund, Wesley Hung, Ivan Sadowski
    Biochemistry & Mol. Biol., University of British Columbia, 2146 Hlth Scs. Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z3, CANADA

  • 08-02
    •   Nucleoporin: Keeping the gate? Nup85p in the regulation of filamentation in Yarrowia lipolytica.
    Roman Szabo
    Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Mlynska dolina CH1, Bratislava, 842 15, SLOVAKIA

  • 08-03
    •   Characterization of a Schizosaccharomyces pombe Rho1p specific GAP protein that negatively regulates the cell wall (1,3)- glucan biosynthesis.
    Teresa M. Calonge, Manuel Arellano, Pedro M. Coll, Pilar Perez
    I. Microbiología Bioquímica, Universidad de Salamanca/CSIC, Av. Campo Charro, Salamanca, 37007, Spain

  • 08-04
    •   Cloning and characterization of the YFT1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Hugo F. Cartagena-Lirola, Angel Duran, M. Henar Valdivieso
    Microbiologia y Genetica, Universidad de Salamanca, Av. Campo Charro, Salamanca, 37007, Spain

  • 08-05
    •   Calcium ion dependent hyphal orientation and steering of Candida albicans .
    Vanessa M. S. Copping, Scott G. Shanks, Neil A. R. Gow
    Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom

  • 08-06
    •   Hsl1 as a sensor of cell shape.
    Chandra L Theesfeld, Elaine Bardes, Daniel J Lew
    Pharmacology and Cancer Bio, Duke University Medical Center, Research Drive, Durham, NC 27710, USA

  • 08-07
    •   Asymmetrically localized Bud8p and Bud9p proteins control yeast cell polarity and development.
    Naimeh Taheri, Tim Köhler, Gerhard H. Braus, Hans-Ulrich Mösch
    Dept. of Mol. Microbiology, Inst. of Microbiol. & Genetics, Grisebachstr. 8, Göttingen, D-37077, Germany

  • 08-08
    •   Characterisation of Candida albicans SSN6 and its role in negative regulation of morphogenesis.
    Susana Garcia, Alistair J. P. Brown
    Molecular & Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom

  • 08-09
    •    cwg1 + and bgs4 + from fission yeast code for the same protein, which is essential and forms one of the (1,3)beta-D-glucan synthase catalytic subunits necessary for cell wall (1,3)beta-D-glucan synthesis.
    Juan C. G. Cortés, Elena Carnero, Yolanda Sánchez, Angel Durán, Juan C. Ribas
    Inst. Microbiol. Bioquímica, CSIC / Univ. Salamanca, Edif. Departamental, Salamanca, 37007, Spain

  • 08-10
    •   A novel protein unfolding factor Unfoldin from S. cerevisiae .
    Naomi Hachiya (1), Hiroyuki Sasaki (2), Yuji Sakasegawa (1), Shoichiro Tsukita (1)
    (1) Japan Science and Technology, ERATO, KyotoResearchPark, Kyoto, 6008813, Japan; (2) KAN Research Institute, KyotoResearchPark

  • 08-11
    •   The diaphanous/formin-family protein, Pdf1, is involved in controlling cell polarity in fission yeast.
    Kentaro Nakano, Issei Mabuchi
    Department of Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo, 153-8902, Japan

  • 08-12
    •   Antagonistic growth regulation by Hog1 and Ca 2+ signaling pathway in budding yeast.
    Atsunori Shitamukai, Dai Hirata, Shin-ya Sonobe, Tokichi Miyakawa
    Department of Mol. Biotech., ADSM, Hiroshima Univ., Kagamiyama 1-3-1, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan

  • 08-13
    •   The function of the leading edge of the prospore membrane in spore formation.
    Alexandra C. Moreno-Borchart, Martin Finkbeiner, Katrin Strasser, Michael Knop
    Dept. Molecular Cell Biology, Max-Planck-Institute, Am Klopferspitz 18a, Martinsried, 82152, Germany

  • 08-14
    •   Functional and structural relationships between Ypl249p, Fus2p, Rvs161p AND Rvs167p.
    Nicolas Talarek, Axelle Balguerie, Nicolas Le Provost, Michel Aigle, Pascal Durrens
    IBGC, University of Bordeaux II, 1 rue C. Saint-Saens, Bordeaux, 33077, FRANCE

  • 08-15
    •   Identification of a sporulation-specific yeast chitinase.
    Thomas Felder, Manuela Knunbauer, Edith Bogengruber, Peter Briza
    Inst.f.Genetik u.Allg.Biologie, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstr.34, Salzburg, A-5020, Austria

  • 08-16
    •   The TGD1 gene encoding dTDP-D-glucose 4,6-dehydratase is required for hyphal growth in Yarrowia lipolytica .
    Seon Ah Cheon (1), Yunkyoung Song (1), Sang-Rak Choi (2), Deog Joong Kim (2), Jeong-Yoon Kim (1)
    (1) Department of Microbiology, Chungnam National University, Gung-dong Yuseong-gu, Taejon, 305-764, Korea; (2) Life Science Research Team, SK Corp., Taejon, Korea

  • 08-17
    •   The polo-like kinase CaCDC5 influences growth and filament formation in the human pathogen Candida albicans .
    Catherine Bachewich (1), David Thomas (2), Malcolm Whiteway (1)
    (1) Health Sector, BRI/NRC, 6100 Royalmount Ave., Montreal, H4P 2R2, Canada; (2) Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, McIntyre Medical Sciences Bldg., Room 802, Montreal Quebec, H3G 1Y6, Canada

  • 08-18
    •    KEM1 -mediated regulatory mechanism for filamentous growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Jaehee Kim, Young-Un Park, Jinmi Kim
    Department of Microbiology, Chungnam National University, Kung-dong 220 , Taejeon, 305-764, SOUTH KOREA

  • 08-19
    •   Post-transcriptional regulation in Candida albicans filamentation growth .
    Hyangsuk Hur, Jinmi Kim
    Department of Microbiology, Chungnam National University, KungDong 220, Taejeon, 305-764, South Korea

  • 08-20
    •   Functional analysis of DEAD-box RNA helicase, Chr1p and zinc-finger protein Csr1p in Candida albicans.
    Kang-Hoon Lee, Jinmi Kim
    Department of micorbiology, Chungnam national university, 220 gung-dong, Teajeon, 305-764, SOUTH KOREA

  • 08-21
    •   Rts1p, a regulator of septin dynamics.
    Jeroen Dobbelaere, Yves Barral
    Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zuerich, Universitaetstr 16 , Zuerich, 8092, Switzerland

  • 08-22
    •   Spindle positioning: The roles of septins and septin-dependent kinases.
    Justine Kusch, Yves Barral
    Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zurich, Universitaetsstr. 16, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland

  • 08-23
    •   Localization of yeast cell wall protein Crh2p depends on the mechanisms responsible for polarized growth.
    Jose M. Rodriguez-Peña (1), Alberto Alvarez (2), Francisco G. Esquer (1), César Nombela (1), Javier Arroyo (1)
    (1) Microbiologia II, Universidad Complutense, Pza. Ramón y Cajal , Madrid, 28040, Spain; (2) Centro de Citometría de Flujo y Microscopía Confocal. UCM.



    09 - Cell Growth and Developmental Decisions

  • 09-01
    •   Inhibition of B-type cyclin proteolysis by the meiosis-specific kinase Ime2p in budding yeast.
    Melanie Bolte, Patrick Steigemann, Gerhard H. Braus, Stefan Irniger
    Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology , Grisebachstr. 8, Goettingen, D-37077, Germany

  • 09-02
    •   Different domains of the essential GTPase Cdc42p required for growth and development of Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Hans-Ulrich Mösch, Tim Köhler, Gerhard H. Braus
    Molecular Microbiology, Microbiology and Genetics, Grisebachstrasse 8, Goettingen, 37077, Germany

  • 09-03
    •   Two novel genes of S. pombe play a role in the coordination and regulation of cell cycle events.
    Zsolt Szilagyi, Agnes Grallert, Nora Nemeth, Matthias Sipiczki
    Dept. of Gen. and Mol. Biol., University of Debrecen, Egyetem ter 1, Debrecen, H-4010, Hungary

  • 09-04
    •   Genetic analysis of chitin synthase I and II genes of fission yeast.
    Yasuhiro Matsuo, Hideyuki Matsuda, Makoto Kawamukai
    Applied Biosci. and Biotech., Shimane University, Nishikawatsu, Matsue, 690-8504, Japan

  • 09-05
    •   Identification of targets of Pho85 kinase-cyclin complexes using the kinase-cyclin fusions.
    Masafumi Nishizawa (1), Akio Toh-e (2)
    (1) Dept. of Microbiology, Keio Univ School of Medicine, 35 Shinanomachi, Tokyo, 160-8582, Japan; (2) Dept Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan

  • 09-06
    •   Identification and functional analysis of two Schizosaccharomyces pombe genes that are essential for sporulation and also required for normal proliferation .
    Shu-hei Yoshida, Taro Nakamura, Chikashi Shimoda
    Dept. Biol., Grad. Sch. Sci., Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, 558-8585, Japan

  • 09-07
    •   Identification and Characterization of Genes Involved in the Cell Wall Biogenesis and Function in S. cerevisiae .
    Tetsuro Horie, Katsumi Isono
    Grad. Sch. Sci. & Tech., Kobe University, Rokkodai 1-1, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan

  • 09-08
    •   A novel function of Saccharomyces cerevisiae PKC1 in the regulation of G 2 /M transition.
    MASAKI MIZUNUMA, DAI HIRATA, TOKICHI MIYAKAWA
    Molecular Biotechnology, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama 1-4-1, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan

  • 09-09
    •   STUDY OF THE Sda1p ROLE IN THE PROGRESSION THROUGH G1 PHASE.
    Francesca Saracino, Valeria Viscardi, Simone Sabbioneda, Maria Luisa Agostoni Carbone
    Genetica-Biologia Microrgan., Università di Milano, via Celoria 26, Milano, 20133, Italy

  • 09-10
    •   Pre-mRNA splicing and cell-cycle control.
    Orna Dahan, Orna Landman, Sigal Ben-Yehuda, Martin Kupiec
    Molc. Microbiology & Biotech., Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

  • 09-11
    •   Meu10, a sporulation-specific gene of Schizosaccharomyces pombe , is required for spore wall formation.
    Takahiro Tougan (1), Yasuyoshi Chiba (1), Yoshito Kakihara (1), Aiko Hirata (2), Hiroshi Nojima (1)
    (1) Department of Molecular Genetics, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, 3-1 Yamadaoka, Suita City, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; (2) Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan

  • 09-12
    •   Interaction of the meiotic initiator Mei2 and translational machinery in fission yeast.
    Yoshinori Watanabe, Hirotsugu Tanaka, Yuji Akiyoshi, Masamitsu Sato, Masayuki Yamamoto
    Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan

  • 09-13
    •   In vivo and in vitro screenings for RNA molecules that bind to the fission yeast key meiotic regulator Mei2.
    Akira Yamashita (1), Yuriko Harigaya (2), Masayuki Yamamoto (2)
    (1) Mol. Genet. Res. Lab., University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan; (2) Dept. Biophys. Biochem., Grad. Schl. Sci., Univ. Tokyo

  • 09-14
    •   Destruction box of a meiosis specific protein, Meu14, is required for its function in meiosis.
    Daisuke Okuzaki, Wataru Satake, Hiroshi Nojima
    Dep. of Molecular Genetics, Osaka University, yamadaoka 3-1, suita, 565- 0871, Japan

  • 09-15
    •   Genomic approach to study fungal sexuality: a Candida albicans odyssey.
    Keh-Weei Tzung (1), Brent Marsh (2), Nina Agabian (3)
    (1) Department of Stomatology, UCSF, 521 Parnassus Ave., SF, CA 94143-0422, USA; (2) brent@bmnz.com; (3) Departments of Stomatology, Microbiology and Immunology, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF, 521 Parnassus Ave., SF, CA 94143-0422

  • 09-16
    •   Isolation of peptide modulators of invasion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Sofie Salama, Thea Norman, Joshua Trueheart, Todd Milne
    Technology Development, Microbia, Inc., 1 Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  • 09-17
    •   Aged yeast mother cells show markers of apoptosis.
    Peter Laun (1), Alena Pichova (2), Frank Madeo (3), Gino Heeren (1), Sepp D. Kohlwein (4), Kai.Uwe Fröhlich (3), Ian Dawes (5), Michael Breitenbach (1)
    (1) Dept. of Genetics, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunerstr. 34a, Salzburg, 5020, Austria; (2) Inst. of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; (3) Dept. of Physiological Chemistry, University of Tübingen, Germany; (4) Dept. of Biochemistry, Technical University of Graz, Austria; (5) School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNSW, Sydney, Australia

  • 09-18
    •   Cell death in polyploids.
    Alex A. Andalis (1), Timothy Galitski (2), Cora A. Styles (1), Gerald R. Fink (1)
    (1) Department of Biology, Whitehead Institute and MIT, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; (2) Institute for Systems Biology, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA

  • 09-19
    •   Androgens effect on Schizosaccharomyces pombe spores germination.
    Sylwia Fijalkowska, Danuta Wilmanska, Jerzy Dlugonski
    Dept. Industrial Microbiology, University of Lodz, Banacha 12/16, Lodz, 90-237, Poland

  • 09-20
    •   Functional analysis of the YGR262c/VSK1 gene encoding an atypical protein kinase essential for normal cell growth.
    Raffaele Lopreiato, Sonia Facchin, Geppo Sartori, Lorenzo A. Pinna, Giovanna Carignani
    Chimica Biologica, Universita' di Padova, Viale G. Colombo, 3, Padova, 35121, Italy

  • 09-21
    •   IDENTIFICATION OF A MEC1-INDEPENDENT REPAIR-REPLICATION CHECKPOINT USING MICROARRAYS.
    Marie DUTREIX (1), Geraldine MERCIER (1), Yan DENIS (1), Laurent PICARD (2), Philippe MARC (3)
    (1) CNRS- UMR 2027, Institut Curie, Bât. 110, Centre Universitaire, F-91405 Orsay, France; (2) Corning SA, Centre de Recherche de Fontainebleau, 7bis, Avenue de Valvins, F-77210 Avon Cedex, France; (3) CNRS-UMR 8541, Ecole Normale Superieure, 46 rue d’Ulm, 75230 Paris Cedex 05, France

  • 09-22
    •   Early transcribed CLB genes allow accumulation of mitotic cyclins, such as Clb2, by inactivating APC Hct1 .
    Hong Hwa Lim, Foong May Yeong, Uttam Surana
    IMCB, IMCB, 30 Medical Drive, Singapore, 117609, Singapore

  • 09-23
    •   The involvement of Mitotic Exit Network in cytokinesis.
    Foong May Yeong, Hong Hwa Lim, Uttam Surana
    IMCB, IMCB, 30 Medical Drive, Singapore, 117609, Singapore

  • 09-24
    •   G2/M arrest caused by actin disruption is a manifestation of the cell size checkpoint in fission yeast.
    Ivan Rupeš (1), Bradley A. Webb (2), Alan Mak (2), Paul G. Young (1)
    (1) Department of Biology, Queen's University, Barrie Street, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada; (2) Department of Biochemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada

  • 09-25
    •   Influence low-doses cancerogenic agent 3,4 Benzo(@)pyrene (3,4 BP) on growth population of yeast cells.
    Victor Samokhvalov (1), Ignatov Vladimir (2), Museykina Natali (3), Melnikov Gennadiy (3)
    (1) Dept.Biochemistry, Saratov State University, Saratov Astrakhanskaya str 83, 410026 Russia; (2) Dept Of Biochemistry, Saratov State University, Saratov Astarkhanskaya str 83, $10026 Russia; (3) Dept of Biochemistry, Saratov State University, Saratov Astrakhanskaya str 83, 410026 Russia

  • 09-26
    •   Chemical mutagenesis in fission yeast: effects on survival rates and cell morphology.
    Mirela M. Cimpeanu (1), Cristian S. Cimpeanu (2)
    (1) Faculty of Biology, Genetics

  • 09-27
    •   Isolation and genetic analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants resistant to 4-aminopyridine.
    Sukhdeep Gill (1), Sham Sunder (2), Balwant Singh (1)
    (1) Dept of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar - 143005, Punjab, INDIA; (2) Dept of Biology, Hindu College, Dhab Khatikan, Amritsar-143006, Punjab, INDIA

  • 09-28
    •   Functional studies of the BOP1-3 genes.
    Guo-Zhen Hu, Hans Ronne
    Department of Plant Biology, Swedish Univ of Agric Sciences, Box 7080, Uppsala, SE-75007, Sweden

  • 09-29
    •   Ddc1 localizes to meiotic chromosomes and promotes Mek1-dependent phosphorylation of Red1 in the pachytene checkpoint.
    Eun-Jin Erica Hong, Shirleen Roeder
    MCDB, Yale University, 266 Whitney Ave., New Haven, CT 06511, U.S.A.



    10 - Signalling, Stress Responses and Aging

  • 10-01
    •   Isolation and characterization of constitutively active forms of the MAPK p38/Hog1 Bell M, Capone R, Pashtan I, Levitzki A and Engelberg D.
    Michal Bell (1), Ricardo Capone (2), Itai Pashtan (2), Alexander Levitzki (2), David Engelberg (2)
    (1) Department of Biological Chemistry, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University, Givat-Ram, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel; (2) biological chemistry, Institute of life sciences, Givat-Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

  • 10-02
    •   Studying the effects of non-ionizing radiation with budding yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ).
    Ari Markkanen (1), Piia Penttinen (1), Jukka Pelkonen (2), Jukka Juutilainen (1), Jonne Naarala (1)
    (1) Dept. Environmental Sciences, University of Kuopio, Neulaniementie 9, Kuopio, FIN-70211, Finland; (2) Department of Clinical Microbiology, University of Kuopio, FIN-70211 Kuopio, Finland

  • 10-03
    •   Protein oxidation depends on the state rather than rate of respiration in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells in the G 0 phase.
    Hugo Aguilaniu (1), Lena Gustafsson (1), Michel Rigoulet (2), Thomas Nyström (3)
    (1) Department of Molecular Biotechnology, Chalmers University of Technology, Box 462, SE-405 30, Göteborg, Sweden; (2) Institut de Biochimie et de Génétique Cellulaires du C.N.R.S., Université de Bordeaux 2, 1, rue Camille St-Saens, F-33077, Bordeaux, France; (3) Department of Cell and Molecular Biology - Microbiology, Göteborg University, Box 462, SE-405 30, Göteborg, Sweden

  • 10-04
    •   Signal transduction induced by a phosphate source controls PKA- targets in budding yeast.
    Frank Giots, Monica C.V. Donaton, Johan M. Thevelein
    Lab. of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Plant Sciences, Kasteelpark Arenberg, Heverlee-Leuven, B-3001, Belgium

  • 10-05
    •   Unravelling Transcriptional Regulation by the cyclic AMP Dependent Protein Kinase A (PKA) and the Sch9 Protein Kinase (PKB) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Johnny Roosen, An Tanghe, Johan M. Thevelein, Joris Winderickx
    Institute for Plant Sciences, Lab of Molecular Cell Biology, Kasteelpark Arenb.31, Heverlee, 3001, Belgium

  • 10-06
    •   Identification of proteins interacting with Ser/Thr protein phosphatases of Neurospora crassa using the yeast two-hybrid system.
    Krisztina Szirak (1), Tamas Zeke (2), Beata Lontay (2), Gabor Grosz (1), Viktor Dombradi (2), Zsigmond Feher (1)
    (1) Department of Human Genetics, University of Debrecen, Nagyerdei krt. 98., Debrecen, H-4012, Hungary; (2) Department of Medical Chemistry, University of Debrecen, Bem ter 18/B, Debrecen, H-4026, Hungary

  • 10-07
    •   Systematic analysis of transcriptional regulators required for the expression of genes involved in filamentous growth, in response to specific nutritional signals.
    Dewald van Dyk, Florian F. Bauer, Isak S. Pretorius
    Institute for Wine Biotech., University of Stellenbosch, Victoria, Stellenbosch, 7600, South Africa

  • 10-08
    •   Investigating a role for the Stress-Activaed MAP Kinase Pathway in the response to ionizing radiation.
    Joanne Evans, Tim Humphrey, Peter O'Neill
    Radiation and Genome Stability, Medical Research Council, Harwell Business Cen, Oxford, Ox11 0RD, UK

  • 10-09
    •   The importance of yeast chorismate mutase for stress response and vacuolar morphology.
    Kerstin Helmstaedt, Gabriele Heinrich, Georg Schnappauf, Gerhard H. Braus
    Dpt. of Molecular Microbiology, Institute of Microbiology , Grisebachstrasse 8, Göttingen, D-37077, Germany

  • 10-10
    •   Overexpression of the translation initiation factor, TIF2 , confers lithium resistance in Sacharomyces cerevisiae .
    Mónica Montero-Lomelí, Claudio A. Masuda
    Bioquímica Médica, Univ Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ilha do Fundao , Rio de Janeiro, 21941- 590, Brazil

  • 10-11
    •   Quorum sensing and selection of thermoresistant mutants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Nabil Matmati, Giorgio Morpurgo, Alberto Marini
    Biologia cellulare e molecolar, University of Perugia, Pascoli, Perugia, 06100, Italy

  • 10-12
    •   Characterisation of essential residues for the activity of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Grx5 monothiol glutaredoxin.
    Gemma Bellí, Maria Teresa Rodríguez-Manzaneque, Jordi Torres, Jordi Tamarit, Joaquim Ros, Enrique Herrero
    Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques , Universitat de Lleida, Rovira Roure 44, Lleida, 25198, Spain

  • 10-13
    •   The mitochondrial Grx5 glutaredoxin is involved in Fe/S cluster assembly and iron homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Maria Teresa Rodríguez-Manzaneque, Jordi Tamarit, Gemma Bellí, María Angeles de la Torre, Joaquim Ros, Enrique Herrero
    Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques , Universitat de Lleida, Rovira Roure 44, Lleida, 25198, Spain

  • 10-14
    •   Yeast Sit4 protein phosphatase modulates the activity of the PKC1- MAPK cell integrity pathway.
    Jordi Torres (1), María Micaela Molina (1), Almudena Sánchez (1), Lidia Piedrafita (1), Joaquín Ariño (2), María Angeles de la Torre (1)
    (1) Ciències Mèdiques Bàsiques, Universitat de Lleida , Rovira Roure 44, Lleida, 25198, Spain; (2) Departament de Bioquímica i Biología Molecular, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

  • 10-15
    •   Analysis of the complementation of yeast cup1 by a water hyacinth metallothionein gene.
    Jimmy S.H. Tsang
    Department of Botany, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, SAR, China

  • 10-16
    •   Sphingolipid-mediated cell death responses in the yeasts Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Mark Ramsdale
    Molecular & Cell Biology, IMS, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom

  • 10-17
    •   Gcn2 mediates Gcn4 activation in response to glucose stimulation, or UV radiation, not via GCN4 translation.
    Irit Marbach, Ruth Licht, David Engelberg
    Biological Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

  • 10-18
    •   Stress-induced cytoplasmic localisation of the protein kinase A (PKA) regulatory subunit Bcy1 requires Sch9 and Yak1.
    Gerard Griffioen (1), Paola Branduardi (2), Annalisa Ballarini (3), Joakim Norbeck (3), Maurizio Baroni (2), Helmut Ruis (3), Johan M. Thevelein (1)
    (1) Lab. Moleculaire Celbiologie, Inst. Botany and Microbiology, Kastp. Arenberg 31, Leuven-Heverlee, B-3001, Belgium; (2) Sezione di Biochimica Comparata, Dipartimento di Fisiologia e Biochimica Generali, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 26, 20133 Milano, Italy; (3) Vienna Biocenter, Institut für Biochemie und Molekulare Zellbiologie der Universität Wien and Ludwig Boltzmann-Forschungstelle für Biochemie, Dr. Bohrgasse 9, A-1030 Wien, Austria.

  • 10-19
    •   Activity of Yap1p transcription factor correlates with intracellular methylglyoxal level.
    Kazuhiro Maeta, Shingo Izawa, Yoshiharu Inoue
    Res. Inst. Food Sci., Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, 611- 0011, Japan

  • 10-20
    •   Regulation of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae pumilio homolog Puf3 by nutrient and stress signalling.
    Joakim Norbeck (1), Wolfgang Reiter (1), Helmut Ruis (1)
    (1) Institut für Biochemie und Molekulare Zellbiologie der Universität Wien and Ludwig Boltzmann-Forschungsstelle für Biochemie, Dr Bohrgasse 9, A-1030 Vienna, Austria.

  • 10-21
    •   Constitutive activation of Msn2 can be suppressed by deletion of Yak1.
    Wolfgang Reiter (1), Erich Durchschlag (1), Helmut Ruis (1)
    (1) Institut für Biochemie und Molekulare Zellbiologie der Universität Wien and Ludwig Boltzmann-Forschungsstelle für Biochemie, Dr.Bohrgasse 9, A-1030 Vienna, Austria.

  • 10-22
    •   On the mechanism of regulated nucleocytoplasmic transport of Gln3.
    John Carvalho, Paula Bertram, X.F. Steven Zheng
    Pathology, Washington University, 660 S. Euclid, St. Louis, MO 63110, United States of America

  • 10-23
    •   In Saccharomyces cerevisiae distinct regions of the Cdc25 protein exert independent control of thermotolerance and culture growth rate by a pathway partly independent of protein kinase A (PKA) and cAMP levels.
    Jorge L. Folch-Mallol, Sergio J. Casas-Flores, Larissa Ventura, Runying Yang, Alejandra Hernández, Luz Ma. Martínez, Jorge Nieto-Sotelo
    Dept. Biol. Mol. Plantas, Instituto de BiotecnologíaUNAM, Av Universidad 2001, Cuernavaca, 62210, MEXICO

  • 10-24
    •   Global Gene Expression during short term ethanol stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Hervé Alexandre, Virginie Ansanay-Galeote, Sylvie Dequin, Bruno Blondin
    Microbiology, INRA, 2, Place Viala, Montpellier, 34060, France

  • 10-25
    •   Ser/Thr phosphatase mutations affect the regulation of the STRE- driven stress response.
    Cécile Brocard (1), Wolfram Goerner (1), Karin Slanoutz (1), Helmut Ruis (1)
    (1) Institut für Biochemie und Molekulare Zellbiologie der Universität Wien and Ludwig Boltzmann- Forschungsstelle für Biochemie, Dr. Bohrgasse 9, A-1030 Vienna, Austria

  • 10-26
    •   Programmed cell death in Saccharomyces cerevisiae induced by acetic acid.
    Paula Ludovico (1), Maria João Sousa (1), Manuel T. Silva (2), Cecília Leão (1), Manuela Côrte-Real (1)
    (1) Departamento de Biologia, Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, 4710-057, Portugal; (2) -Imunologia Comparada, Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular (IBMC), Rua do Campo Alegre, 823, 4150-171 Porto, Portugal

  • 10-27
    •   Differential regulation of the MAPK-mediated pathways for mating, filamentous growth and osmotolerance by cAMP in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Claudia Hopp, Frauke Bühring, Cornelis P. Hollenberg, Massoud Ramezani-Rad
    Institute for Microbiology, Heinrich-Heine University, Universitätsstr. 1, Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany

  • 10-28
    •   Characterisation of a putative glycerol facilitator in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe .
    Gerald Kayingo (1), Markus Tamas (2), Stefan Hohmann (2), Bernard Prior (1)
    (1) Microbiology, University of Stellenbosch, Banghoek Street, Stellenbosch, 7600, South Africa; (2) Department of Molecular Cell Biology/Microbiology, University of Gothenburg, S-41390, Gothenburg, Sweden

  • 10-29
    •   Regulation of gene expression by ambient pH in fungi and yeast.
    Olivier Vincent
    C.I.B., C.S.I.C., Velazquez, 144, Madrid, 28006, Spain

  • 10-30
    •   Overexpression of superoxide dimutases can extend the chronological life span of Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Nicholas Harris (1), Morag MacLean (1), Vitor Costa (2), Pedro Moradas-Ferreira (2), Peter Piper (1)
    (1) Department of Biochemistry, University College London, Gower Street, London , WC1E 6BT, U.K.; (2) Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.

  • 10-31
    •   The Gsk-3 homologue Mck1 is involved in modification of Bcy1.
    Annalisa Ballarini (1), Gerard Griffioen (2), Joakim Norbeck (1), Helmut Ruis (1)
    (1) Institut für Biochemie und Molekulare Zellbiologie der Universität Wien and Ludwig Boltzmann-Forschungsstelle für Biochemie, Dr. Bohrgasse 9, A-1030 Vienna, Austria; (2) Laboratorium voor Moleculaire Celbiologie, Kasteelpark Arenberg 31, B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee, Flanders, Belgium

  • 10-32
    •   Profiling ethanol stress response genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae .
    Meredith Chandler (1), Grant Stanley (1), Peter Rogers (2), Paul Chambers (1)
    (1) School of Life Sciences and Technology, Victoria University of Technology, Werribee Campus (WOO8), P.O. Box 14428, Melbourne City, MC, Victoria, Australia, 8001; (2) BrewTech, Carlt