Yeast and human beings

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2006

10.000 litres of yeast culture – which corresponds to 150 kg of yeast – was used to finally produce 2 g of pure RNA-polymerase.

Eukaryotes are organisms whose cells have well-defined nuclei. All green plants, fungi and mammals belong to this group. Roger Kornberg has developed a system of using yeast fungi to study transcription. Yeast cells are similar enough to human cells for the results to apply to us as well.

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Nobel Poster from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, web adapted by Nobel Web

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