Journal
FEMS YEAST RESEARCH
Volume 10, Issue 8, Pages 1046-1059Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2010.00689.x
Keywords
yeast systems biology; energy metabolism; proteostasis
Funding
- UNICELLSYS
- SYSINBIO
- Swedish Research Council
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- Chalmers Foundation
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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a widely used model organism for studying cell biology, metabolism, cell cycle and signal transduction. Many regulatory pathways are conserved between this yeast and humans, and it is therefore possible to study pathways that are involved in disease development in a model organism that is easy to manipulate and that allows for detailed molecular studies. Here, we briefly review pathways involved in lipid metabolism and its regulation, the regulatory network of general metabolic regulator Snf1 (and its human homologue AMPK) and the proteostasis network with its link to stress and cell death. All the mentioned pathways can be used as model systems for the study of homologous pathways in human cells and a failure in these pathways is directly linked to several human diseases such as the metabolic syndrome and neurodegeneration. We demonstrate how different yeast pathways are conserved in humans, and we discuss the possibilities of using the systems biology approach to study and compare the pathways of relevance with the objective to generate hypotheses and gain new insights.
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