Re: [DIYbio] Yeast as biosensor?

These code for mercury resistance, not sure if they have sensor
components you could copy and hook up to a reporter gene in addition
to the resistance gene:

Expression of bacterial mercuric ion reductase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC206423/

there's also tn501 for e.coli and other bacteria


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Kwabena <ghcopper93@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
> I have been doing some reading on biosensors and I discovered yeast can be
> used to detect the presence of heavy metals in water. I would like to know
> if they can be useful in medicine, say to detect antibodies or antigens?
> Thanks in advance for any information.
> K.Boat
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