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<h2>Yeast for dummies</h2> 
 
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<p>Since this is the first time that TU Delfts iGEM team is working with yeast, we faced a lot of small yeast-related 'challenges'. With this page we want to inform you about the basics and the pitfalls of working with yeast. </p>
 
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<h3>Auxotrophy</h3> 
 
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<h3>Shuttle vectors</h3> 
 
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<p> Today, most commonly encountered S. cerevisiae shuttle vectors belong to one of three classes:<br/>
 
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- Integrating plasmids YIp<br/>
 
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- Centromere plasmids YCp<br/>
 
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- Yeast episomal plasmids  YEp<br/>
 
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We choose to work with the pRS vectors because.<br/>
 
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The name pRS415 gives an indication on the presence of a CEN/ARS replication origin. 0 means yeast
 
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integrative plasmid, 1 means that it also can be used to maintain the plasmid in circular
 
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pRS415 Gives an indication of the auxotrophic marker used.
 
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pRS415 Version number… not really different.<br/>
 
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<h3>Chromosomal integration</h3>
 
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<p>We encountered a lot of problems with plasmids. Because we wanted our constructs to be universal
 
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(with the idea to make it suitable for ‘fast checking’) we tried maintaining a plasmid. As it turned
 
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out, yeast cells are not eager to maintain a plasmid and with our construct we suspect homologous
 
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recombination occurred. After transformation, a PCR on the transformed plasmid, obtained by
 
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isolation, showed two bands instead of the suspected single band, one being ! Integration of the
 
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plasmid is therefore advised! Checking of this can be quite gruesome optimizing the necessary PCR
 
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reactions on your transformed yeast colonies. Chromosomal isolation can therefore improve the
 
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steps.  </p><br/>
 
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<h3>Knock-out strains</h3> 
 
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<p>European iGEM teams have the advantage to have Euroscarf available (http://web.uni-
 
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frankfurt.de/fb15/mikro/euroscarf) to order strains with knocked out ORFs. The typical
 
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nomenclature is also explained here (http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb15/mikro/euroscarf/
 
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