Question

The advantage of yeast cells over bacterial cells to express human proteins is that:

Answer 1

Answer:

Yeast cells are eukaryotic and modify proteins similarly to human cells

Explanation:

• Bacterial cells are prokaryotic and are different in structure to human cells, thus the way in which they metabolize and express proteins will be different.
• Yeast cells are similar to human cells and diploids can be made from yeast.
• Yeast cells are eukaryotic and thus have mostly the same cell machinery and structure that human cells have and this is a more accurate vector to test expression of human proteins.