image: Life cycle of a budding yeast ascospore. False-color transmission electron microscopic images of the major time points of yeast ascospore germination. Top left is an ascus (Cyan) which shows three developing ascospores. Top right is a purified ascospore (Purple). Then in clockwise order are shown a hatching ascospore (Red), an elongating ascospore (Orange), the first budding of an ascospore (Yellow), and a vegetative yeast (Green). view more
Credit: Samuel Plante (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Yeast spores are exceptionally resistant to stress due to their dormancy, but how do they exit this state? This study shows how these cells transform the biophysical properties of their cytoplasm and proteome to return to vegetative growth.
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Article Title: Breaking spore dormancy in budding yeast transforms the cytoplasm and the solubility of the proteome
Author Countries: Canada
Funding: see manuscript
Journal
PLOS Biology
Subject of Research
Cells
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Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.