Synergistic operation of four cis-acting elements mediate high level DAL5 transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

abstract：:The fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis causes paracoccidioidomycosis, a systemic granulomatous mycosis prevalent in Latin America. In an effort to elucidate the molecular mechanisms involved in fungus cell wall assembly and morphogenesis, beta-1,3-glucanosyltransferase 3 (PbGel3p) is presented here. PbGel3p presente...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Castro Nda S,de Castro KP,Orlandi I,Feitosa Ldos S,Rosa e Silva LK,Vainstein MH,Báo SN,Vai M,Soares CM

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Development of a pulsed-light (PL) approach to inanimate surface decontamination is timely, as the incidence of yeast-related infections in healthcare remains unacceptably high. Critical electrical and biological factors governing the efficacy of PL for the in vitro inactivation of medically important yeast were estab...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Farrell H,Garvey M,Rowan N

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed a method for the quantification of protein turnover rates using (13)C-labeled substrates combined with the analysis of the labeling patterns of proteinogenic amino acids. Using this method, the specific amino acid turnover rates between proteins and the pool of free amino acids were determined for eight d...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Hong KK,Hou J,Shoaie S,Nielsen J,Bordel S

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formic acid disrupts mitochondrial electron transport and sequentially causes cell death in mammalian ocular cells by an unidentified molecular mechanism. Here, we show that a low concentration of formic acid induces apoptosis-like cell death in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with several morphological an...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Du L,Su Y,Sun D,Zhu W,Wang J,Zhuang X,Zhou S,Lu Y

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an excellent ethanol producer, but is rather sensitive to high concentration of ethanol. Here, influences of ethanol on cellular membrane integrity and carbon metabolism of S. cerevisiae were investigated to rationalize mechanism involved in ethanol toxicity. Addition of 5% (v/v) ethanol di...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Yang KM,Lee NR,Woo JM,Choi W,Zimmermann M,Blank LM,Park JB

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultimate goal of therapeutic vaccines is to activate and exploit the patient's own immune system to vigorously and dynamically seek and eradicate established malignant or virally infected cells. Therapeutic vaccines also offer the potential for preventing disease recurrence. Saccharomyces cerevisiae-based vaccines...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Ardiani A,Higgins JP,Hodge JW

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secreted lipases of Candida albicans are encoded by a gene family with at least 10 members (LIP1-LIP10). The expression pattern of this multigene family was investigated using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction in experimental infections and in samples of patients suffering from oral candidosis. The findi...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Stehr F,Felk A,Gácser A,Kretschmar M,Mähnss B,Neuber K,Hube B,Schäfer W

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:d-Amino acid oxidase (DAO) is an important flavo-enzyme that catalyzes the oxidative deamination of d-amino acids into the corresponding alpha-keto acid, ammonia and H(2)O(2). We identified two amino acid oxidases in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris: Dao1p, which preferentially uses d-alanine as a substrate, a...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Klompmaker SH,Kilic A,Baerends RJ,Veenhuis M,van der Klei IJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The asci of Metschnikowia species normally contain two ascospores (never more), raising the question of whether these spores are true meiotic products. We investigated this problem by crossing genetically-marked strains of the haploid, heterothallic taxa Metschnikowia hawaiiensis, Metschnikowia continentalis var. cont...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Marinoni G,Piskur J,Lachance MA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of the apoptotic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, several compounds have been shown to cause apoptosis in this organism. While the toxicity of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) peroxides towards S. cerevisiae has been known for a long time, studies on the effect of nonoxidized PUFA are scarce....

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Ferreira TC,de Moraes LM,Campos EG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Secondary metabolites are an important source of high-value chemicals, many of which exhibit important pharmacological properties. These valuable natural products are often difficult to synthesize chemically and are commonly isolated through inefficient extractions from natural biological sources. As such, they are in...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Siddiqui MS,Thodey K,Trenchard I,Smolke CD

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Kluyveromyces lactis, galactose transport has been thought to be mediated by the lactose permease encoded by LAC12. In fact, a lac12 mutant unable to grow on lactose did not grow on galactose either and showed low and uninducible galactose uptake activity. The existence of other galactose transport systems, at low ...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Baruffini E,Goffrini P,Donnini C,Lodi T

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The durum wheat TMKP1 gene encodes a MAP kinase phosphatase. When overexpressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, TMKP1 leads to salt stress tolerance (especially LiCl ), which is dependent on the phosphatase activity of the protein. The TMKP1-associated Li(+) resistance is restricted to a galactose-containing medium. Inte...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Zaidi I,González A,Touzri M,Alvarez MC,Ramos J,Masmoudi K,Ariño J,Hanin M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen indigenous Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains isolated from the barks of three tree species located in the Atlantic Rain Forest and Cerrado biomes in Brazil were genetically and physiologically compared to laboratory strains and to strains from the Brazilian fuel ethanol industry. Although no clear correlation ...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Beato FB,Bergdahl B,Rosa CA,Forster J,Gombert AK

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cdc37p, the p50 homolog of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is an Hsp90 cochaperone involved in the targeting of protein kinases to Hsp90. Here we report a role for Cdc37p in osmoadaptive signalling in this yeast. The osmosensitive phenotype that is displayed by the cdc37-34 mutant strain appears not to be the consequence of...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Yang XX,Hawle P,Bebelman JP,Meenhuis A,Siderius M,van der Vies SM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Molecular tools for the production of heterologous proteins and metabolic engineering applications of the non-conventional yeast Zygosaccharomyces bailii were developed. The combination of Z. bailii's resistance to relatively high temperature, osmotic pressure and low pH values, with a high specific growth rate render...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Branduardi P,Valli M,Brambilla L,Sauer M,Alberghina L,Porro D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae shows similar responses to heat shock and ethanol stress. Cells treated with severe ethanol stress activate the transcription of HSP genes and cause the aggregation of Hsp104-GFP, implying that severe ethanol stress as well as heat shock causes the accumulation of denatured proteins in yeast c...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Kato S,Yoshida M,Izawa S

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with inactivated endopolyphosphatase gene PPN1 did not grow on lactate and ethanol, and stopped growth on glucose earlier than the parent strain. Their mitochondria were defective in respiration functions and in metabolism of inorganic polyphosphates. The PPN1 mutants lacked exopoly...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Pestov NA,Kulakovskaya TV,Kulaev IS

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic human fungal pathogen Candida glabrata is second only to C. albicans as the cause of Candida infections and yet is more closely related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Recent advances in functional genomics technologies and computational approaches to decipher regulatory networks, and the comparison of ...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Roy S,Thompson D

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we present evidence that Hsp150/Pir2, a member of the Pir family of cell wall proteins, can be extracted from the purified cell walls of Saccharomyces cerevisiae by treatment with beta-mercaptoethanol, demonstrating that at least part of this protein is attached to the cell wall through disulfide bridges. We also...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Moukadiri I,Zueco J

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc is a crucial mineral for all organisms as it is an essential cofactor for the proper function of a plethora of proteins and depletion of zinc causes oxidative stress. Glutathione is the major redox buffering agent in the cell and therefore important for mitigation of the adverse effects of oxidative stress. In ma...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Steiger MG,Patzschke A,Holz C,Lang C,Causon T,Hann S,Mattanovich D,Sauer M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genes of the post-squalene ergosterol biosynthetic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been overexpressed in a systematic approach with the aim to construct yeast strains that produce high amounts of sterols from a squalene-accumulating strain. This strain had previously been deregulated by overexpressing a trunc...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Veen M,Stahl U,Lang C

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zero-trans rates of maltose transport by brewer's yeasts exert strong control over fermentation rates and are strongly temperature-dependent over the temperature range (20–0 °C) of brewery fermentations. Three α-glucoside transporters, ScAgt1(A60) (a Saccharomyces cerevisiae version of Agt1 from an ale strain), ScAgt1...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Vidgren V,Viljanen K,Mattinen L,Rautio J,Londesborough J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of intracellular GTPase Arl1 and organellar cation/H(+) antiporters (Kha1 and Nhx1) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae tolerance to various stress factors were investigated and interesting new phenotypes of strains devoid of these proteins were found. The role of Arl1 GTPase in their tolerance to various cations is...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Marešová L,Sychrová H

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The target of rapamycin complex 1 (TORC1) is the central controller of growth in eukaryotic cells. As one of the downstream targets of TORC1, the protein kinase ScSch9p plays multiple roles in stress resistance, longevity and nutrient sensing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this study, we demonstrate that Candida albi...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Liu W,Zhao J,Li X,Li Y,Jiang L

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria are responsible for a series of metabolic functions. Superoxide leakage from the respiratory chain and the resulting cascade of reactive oxygen species-induced damage, as well as mitochondrial metabolism in programmed cell death, have been intensively studied during ageing in single-cellular and higher or...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Breitenbach M,Rinnerthaler M,Hartl J,Stincone A,Vowinckel J,Breitenbach-Koller H,Ralser M

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evaluation of the functional impact of cancer-associated missense variants is more difficult than for protein-truncating mutations and consequently standard guidelines for the interpretation of sequence variants have been recently proposed. A number of algorithms and software products were developed to predict the imp...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Mercatanti A,Lodovichi S,Cervelli T,Galli A

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we show that the proteins Pkc1 and Pfy1 play a role in the repolarization of the actin cytoskeleton and in cell survival in response to oxidative stress. We have also developed an assay to determine the actin polymerization capacity of total protein extracts using fluorescence recovery after photobleachi...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Pujol N,Bonet C,Vilella F,Petkova MI,Mozo-Villarías A,de la Torre-Ruiz MA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yarrowia lipolytica is a dimorphic fungus whose morphology is controlled by several factors such as pH and different compounds. To determine if the STE11-mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway plays a role in dimorphism of Y. lipolytica, we isolated the gene encoding a Mapkkk. The isolated gene (STE11) has an...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Cervantes-Chávez JA,Ruiz-Herrera J

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of the loss of the Ser-Thr protein phosphatase Sit4, an important post-translational regulator, on the steady-state levels of the low-affinity glucose transporter Hxt1p and observed a delay in its appearance after high glucose induction, slow growth, and diminished glucose consumption. By analyzi...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Souza AA,Miranda MN,da Silva SF,Bozaquel-Morais B,Masuda CA,Ghislain M,Montero-Lomelí M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00