Death of Yeast Cell under the High-Pressure Condition

Abstract

  This article reviews the progress of research on the dying mechanism of yeast cells by hydrostatic pressure. The reason that yeast dies under lethal condition is related to many complex features such as destruction of the cellular structures and degeneration of the damaged functions. In order to understand the dying mechanisms under high pressure, we have to focus on not only the damages by pressure but also the repairing mechanisms. The later must be more important than the former.