Yeast protocols : methods in cell and molecular biology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Evans, Ivor H. (Ivor Howell)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [1996]
Series:Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) ; v. 53.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Isolation and identification of yeasts from natural habitats
  • Maintenance and culture of yeasts
  • Mutagenesis in yeast
  • Rare-mating and cytoduction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • Protoplast fusion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • Meiotic analysis
  • Ascus dissection
  • Karyotyping of yeast strains by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis
  • Chromosomal localization of genes through pulsed-field gel electrophoresis techniques
  • Isolation, purification and analysis of nuclear DNA in yeast taxonomy
  • Isolation of yeast DNA
  • Isolation of mitochondrial DNA
  • Isolation of yeast plasma membranes
  • The extraction and analysis of sterols from yeast
  • Peroxisome isolation
  • Transformation of lithium-treated yeast cells and the selection of auxotrophic and dominant markers
  • Biolistic transformation of yeasts
  • Genomic yeast DNA clone banks : construction and gene isolation
  • Yeast colony hybridization
  • Determination of plasmid copy number in yeast
  • Determination of chromosome ploidy in yeast
  • Chromosome engineering in yeast with a site-specific recombination system from a heterologous yeast plasmid
  • Insertional mutagenesis by Ty elements in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • Reporter gene systems for assaying gene expression in yeast
  • Preparation and use of yeast cell-free translation lysate
  • Electrophoretic analysis of yeast proteins
  • Preparation of total RNA
  • mRNA abundance and half-life measurements
  • Polysome analysis
  • Induction of heat shock proteins and thermotolerance
  • Rhodamine B assay for estimating activity of killer toxins permeabilizing cytoplasmic membranes
  • Nystatin-rhodamine B assay for estimating activity of killer toxin from Kluyveromyces lactis
  • Application of killer toxins in stepwise selection of hybrids and cybrids obtained by induced protoplast fusion
  • Killer plaque technique for selecting hybrids and cybrids obtained by induced protoplast fusion
  • Genotoxicity testing in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
  • Purification and quantification of saccharomyces cerevisiae cytochrome P450
  • Calorimetry of whole yeast cells
  • Light microscopy methods
  • Fluorescence microscopy methods
  • Immunoelectron microscopy