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Covalent attachment of palmitoleic acid (C16:1 delta 9) to proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Evidence for a third class of acylated proteins by Casey, W.M, Gibson, K.J, Parks, L.W

“…Saccharomyces cerevisiae was used as a model system to characterize the covalent attachment of palmitoleic acid to proteins. Chemically synthesized…”
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae membrane sterol modifications in response to growth in the presence of ethanol by Walker-Caprioglio, H.M. (University of New Mexico Medical School, Albuquerque, NM), Casey, W.M, Parks, L.W

“…Membranes isolated from yeasts grown in the presence of ethanol do not display the thermally induced transition in diphenylhexatriene anisotropy that is seen…”
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Effects of unsaturated fatty acid supplementation on phospholipid and triacylglycerol biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Casey, W M, Rolph, C E, Tomeo, M E, Parks, L W

“…A fatty acid desaturase mutant was used to study the regulatory effects of unsaturated fatty acids on glycerolipid biosynthesis in yeast. Cells grown on…”
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Physiological Implications of Sterol Biosynthesis in Yeast by Parks, Leo W, Casey, Warren M

“…Fungi are among the most primitive organisms that synthesize sterols. The fungal sterol, ergosterol, is similar to animal sterol, cholesterol, but with…”
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An assessment of the specificity of sterol uptake and esterification in Saccharomyces cerevisiae [Yeast] by Taylor, F R, Parks, L W

“…By growing a sterol-requiring strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the presence of pairs of sterols differing by a single structural change, the in vivo…”
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A mutation in a purported regulatory gene affects control of sterol uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Crowley, J.H. (NutraSweet Kelco Co., San Diego, CA.), Leak, F.W. Jr, Shianna, K.V, Tove, S, Parks, L.W

“…Aerobically growing wild-type strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae are unable to take exogenously supplied sterols from media. This aerobic sterol exclusion is…”
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The effect of altered sterol composition on cytochrome oxidase and S-adenosylmethionine: delta 24 sterol methyltransferase enzymes of yeast mitochondria by Thompson, E D, Parks, L W

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Δ8(9),22-Ergostadiene-3β-ol, an ergosterol precursor accumulated in wild-type and mutants of yeast by Parks, L.W., Bond, F.T., Thompson, E.D., Starr, P.R.

“…Whereas wild-type strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae can synthesize up to 7% dry weight of ergosterol, a polyene-resistant mutant has been obtained which…”
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Acid-labilization of sterols for extraction from yeast by Gonzales, R A, Parks, L W

“…A wild type strain of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, pretreated with a mild acid hydrolysis, exhibited a 4-fold increase in sterol yield upon saponification…”
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Biochemical and physiological effects of sterol alterations in yeast: a review by Parks, L.W. (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.), Smith, S.J, Crowley, J.H

“…Considerable progress has been made in the selection and characterization of mutants that are defective in the synthesis of ergosterol in the…”
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Isolation from yeast of a metabolically active water-soluble form of ergosterol by Adams, B G, Parks, L W

“…A water-soluble complex containing ergosterol together with a component of yeast has been isolated. The complex can be isolated from commercial yeast extract…”
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Assessment of the essentiality of ERG genes late in ergosterol biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Palermo, L.M, Leak, F.W, Tove, S, Parks, L.W

“…Isogenic strains of yeast were constructed, differing only in insertionally inactivated genes for ergosterol biosynthesis. These and their allelic wild-types…”
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Involvement of heme components in sterol metabolism of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Lorenz, R.T. (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC), Parks, L.W

“…There is an intimate association between sterol biosynthesis in yeast and aerobicity. Besides the requirement for molecular oxygen for the epoxidation of…”
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Aerobic isolation of an ERG24 null mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Crowley, J.H. (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.), Smith, S.J, Leak, F.W, Parks, L.W

“…The ERC24 gene, encoding the C-14 sterol reductase, has been reported to be essential to the aerobic growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We report here,…”
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Lack of specificity in accumulation of sterols by Phytophthora cactorum [Pythiaceous fungi] by Gonzales R.A, Parks L.W

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Sterol analysis of the inner and outer mitochrondrial membranes in yeast by Bottema, C.K, Parks, L.W

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Structural discrimination in the sparking function of sterols in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Lorenz, R.T. (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC), Casey, W.M, Parks, L.W

“…A Saccharomyces cerevisiae sterol auxotroph, SPK14 (a hem1 erg6 erg7 ura), as constructed to test the ability of selected C-5,6 unsaturated sterols at…”
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Sterol 24(28)methylene reductase in Saccharomyces cerevisae by Neal, W.D, Parks, L.W

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Stimulation by heme of steryl ester synthase and aerobic sterol exclusion in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Keesler, G A, Casey, W M, Parks, L W

“…Saccharomyces cerevisiae sterol and heme auxotrophs were used to elucidate a role for hemes in sterol esterification. Steryl ester synthase (SES) activity was…”
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Effect of altered sterol composition on growth characteristi cs of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Thompson, E.D, Parks, L.W

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