Browsing by Subject "chemotaxis"
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Experimentally informed bottom-up model of yeast polarity suggests how single cells respond to chemical gradients
(2021)How do single cells—like neutrophils, amoebae, neurons, yeast, etc.—grow or move in a directed fashion in response to spatial chemical gradients? To address this question, we used the mating response in the budding yeast, ... -
Mechanisms of Chemotropism in Fungi: Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a Model
(2021)Budding yeast decode pheromone gradients to locate mating partners, providing a model of chemotropism in fungi. How yeast polarize toward a single partner in crowded environments is unclear. Initially, cells often polarize ... -
Mechanisms of Gradient Tracking During Yeast Mating
(2012)Many cells are remarkably proficient at tracking even shallow chemical gradients, despite tiny differences in receptor occupancy across the cell. Stochastic receptor-ligand interactions introduce considerable noise ...
