Kyoto University was decomposed on March 31, 2001. The Department of Molecular Breeding of Microorganisms has been changed to the Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University.
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The environmental stress response of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been the focus of attention, because the yeast is known to have similar regulatory mechanisms of gene expression and signal transduction system to those of higher eukaryotes. Additionally, S. cerevisiae has a great advantage of gene analysis owing to the utility of the complete genome sequence. The following projects are now in progress in this laboratory. Molecular biology, biochemistry and biophysics of oxidative stress response of yeast cells. Signal transduction and regulation of gene expression of yeast during environmental stress response.