Abstract
The baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a single celled eucaryote that is gaining appeal for studies of fundamental processes in cellular and molecular biology. This article describes three examples of the use of yeast to study problems of importance to human medicine. Specifically, the enzymes involved in neuropeptide processing, the RAS oncogenes, and the regulation of cholesterol biosynthesis in humans are shown to have remarkable similarities to their equivalent processes in yeast. In several cases the yeast and human enzymes are functionally interchangeable, emphasizing the unity of basic principles in biology.
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