Overexpression of the transcription factor Yap1 modifies intracellular redox conditions and enhances recombinant protein secretion

October 31, 2014

This article investigates the role of Yap1 during the production of recombinant secretory proteins in glucose based growth conditions in Pichia pastoris, and reports a novel role of Yap1 during ER-resident oxidative protein folding.

Plasmodium spp. membrane glutathione S-transferases: detoxification units and drug targets

October 23, 2014

This article comments on work published by Lisewski et al. (Cell, 2014), which reported the first examples of membrane-associated proteins in eicosanoid and glutathione metabolism members among Plasmodium spp.