Ospedale Policlinico San Martino 1 article published in JoVE Cancer Research Yeast As a Chassis for Developing Functional Assays to Study Human P53 Paola Monti1, Bartolomeo Bosco2, Sara Gomes3, Lucilia Saraiva*3, Gilberto Fronza*1, Alberto Inga*2 1Mutagenesis and Cancer Prevention Unit, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, 2Department CIBIO, University of Trento, 3LAQV/REQUIMTE, Laboratory of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto Presented here are four protocols to construct and exploit yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae reporter strains to study human P53 transactivation potential, impacts of its various cancer-associated mutations, co-expressed interacting proteins, and the effects of specific small molecules.
