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Making drug addicts out of yeast

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Yeast has been engineered so that the binding of small-molecule ligands to a target protein can be simply detected by changes in growth.

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Figure 1: Yeast dhr1 mutant strains carrying a murine DHFR chimeric protein can be used as a biosensor for drug discovery.

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