UW-Madison graduate students Yirong Wang (Eide lab, Department of Nutritional Sciences) and Erin Weisenhorn (Coon lab, Department of Biomolecular Chemistry) are the lead authors on a recent publication in the Journal of Metallomics that evaluates zinc sparing across the zinc proteome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Zinc sparing is a key mechanism of zinc homeostasis in which specific zinc-binding proteins are repressed to reduce the cellular requirement.
This article also inspired the cover art for the issue.
