FEMS Yeast Research Thematic Issue "Yeast Cell Aging and Death"
The Thematic Issue on "Yeast Cell Aging and Death" is now available in full on the FEMS Yeast Research website, with all articles available at the page here: https://academic.oup.com/
All papers are freely available until the end of 2018.
As it is stated at the aforementioned website: "Research on ageing is one of the top medical priorities in developed societies and yeast represents an attractive model system for studying more complex phenomena that occur in higher eukaryotic cells, including cell division, ageing and apoptosis. While such research in a clinical setting is confronted with – and limited by – ethical issues, and since studying ageing, longevity and regulated cell death in metazoan models is time consuming and costly, yeast cells offer an attractive eukaryotic model. Combining its amenability to genetic manipulation with well-established experimental tools, yeast ensures rapid and significant progress in this fundamentally important area of molecular and cell biology.
This special issue covers a variety of topics, including:
- RNA stability
- Mitochondrial function and physiology
- Metabolic regulation of cell death
- Autophagy/Mitophagy Proteostasis and proteotoxicity
- Cellular ageing
- Antifungal activity and drug discovery
- Yeast models of human diseases
- Yeast-based drug design
- Systems-based model of cell death and ageing processes