Loss of Zhf and the tightly regulated zinc-uptake system SpZrt1 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe reveals the delicacy of cellular zinc balance.

abstract：:The LYS12 gene from Candida albicans, coding for homoisocitrate dehydrogenase was cloned and expressed as a His-tagged protein in Escherichia coli. The purified gene product catalyzes the Mg(2+)- and K(+)-dependent oxidative decarboxylation of homoisocitrate to α-ketoadipate. The recombinant enzyme demonstrates strict...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Gabriel I,Vetter ND,Palmer DR,Milewska MJ,Wojciechowski M,Milewski S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance and adaptation of energy metabolism could play an important role in the cellular ability to respond to DNA damage. A large number of studies suggest that the sensitivity of cells to oxidants and oxidative stress depends on the activity of cellular metabolism and is dependent on the glucose concentration. I...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Kitanovic A,Walther T,Loret MO,Holzwarth J,Kitanovic I,Bonowski F,Van Bui N,Francois JM,Wölfl S

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic and cell-biological analysis is provided for Saccharomyces cerevisiae DML1 (YMR211w) encoding a Drosophila melanogaster Misato-like protein. Misato and Dml1p are descendants of an ancestral tubulin-like protein, and exhibit regions with similarity to members of a GTPase family that include eukaryotic tubulin...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Gurvitz A,Hartig A,Ruis H,Hamilton B,de Couet HG

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo assembly of overlapping fragments by homologous recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a powerful method to engineer large DNA constructs. Whereas most in vivo assembly methods reported to date result in circular vectors, stable integrated constructs are often preferred for metabolic engineering as they ...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Kuijpers NG,Chroumpi S,Vos T,Solis-Escalante D,Bosman L,Pronk JT,Daran JM,Daran-Lapujade P

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The essentiality of iodine for humans, especially in the early stages of life, is well recognized. The chemical forms of iodine in food supplements, infant formulae and iodated salt are either iodide (KI) or iodate (KIO(3)). Because there are no or rare data about iodine uptake by yeasts, we investigated the influence...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Osterc A,Fujs S,Raspor P,Stibilj V

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) cascades are signal transduction mechanisms present in eukaryotic cells that allow adaptation to environmental changes. MAPK activity is mainly regulated by dual phosphorylation in a TXY motif present in the kinase subdomain VIII as well as dephosphorylation by specific phosphat...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Román E,Alonso-Monge R,Gong Q,Li D,Calderone R,Pla J

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence in the literature showing that fungal pathogens express biologically active ectoenzymes. The expression of surface phosphatases at the cell surface of Cryptococcus neoformans, the etiologic agent of cryptococcosis, was evaluated in the present study. Different isolates of C. neoformans exp...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Collopy-Junior I,Esteves FF,Nimrichter L,Rodrigues ML,Alviano CS,Meyer-Fernandes JR

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among existing fungal pathogens, Candida glabrata is outstanding in its capacity to rapidly develop resistance to currently used antifungal agents. Resistance to the class of azoles, which are still widely used agents, varies in proportion (from 5 to 20%) depending on geographical area. Moreover, resistance to the cla...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Vale-Silva LA,Sanglard D

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine yeast strains were isolated from spontaneous fermentations in the Alsace area of France, during the 1997, 1998 and 1999 grape harvests. Strains were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of the MET2 gene, delta-PCR, and microsatellite patterns. Kary...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Le Jeune C,Lollier M,Demuyter C,Erny C,Legras JL,Aigle M,Masneuf-Pomarède I

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of wine fermentations are performed principally by Saccharomyces cerevisiae. However, there are a growing number of instances in which other species of Saccharomyces play a predominant role. Interestingly, the presence of these other yeast species generally occurs via the formation of interspecific h...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Borneman AR,Desany BA,Riches D,Affourtit JP,Forgan AH,Pretorius IS,Egholm M,Chambers PJ

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeasts belonging to the lineage that underwent whole-genome duplication (WGD) possess a good fermentative potential and can proliferate in the absence of oxygen. In this study, we analyzed the pre-WGD yeast Kluyveromyces lactis and its ability to grow under oxygen-limited conditions. Under these conditions, K. lactis ...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Merico A,Galafassi S,Piskur J,Compagno C

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The feasibility of using a single vector to clone a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase (P450) in different yeasts and then compare whole-cell hydroxylase activity was investigated. A broad-range yeast expression vector using the ylTEFp to drive expression of the cloned gene and the scTEFp to drive the hygromycin resistance...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Theron CW,Labuschagné M,Gudiminchi R,Albertyn J,Smit MS

更新日期：2014-06-01 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 budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is an efficient model for studying oxidative stress, programmed cell death and aging. The present study was carried out to investigate antioxidant, the anti-apoptotic and anti-aging activity of a natural compound, astaxanthin, in S. cerevisiae model. The survivability of ye...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Sj S,Veerabhadrappa B,Subramaniyan S,Dyavaiah M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selenium (Se) is an essential element for most eukaryotic organisms, including humans. The balance between Se toxicity and its beneficial effects is very delicate. It has been demonstrated that a diet enriched with Se has cancer prevention potential in humans. The most popular commercial Se supplementation is selenize...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Mapelli V,Hillestrøm PR,Patil K,Larsen EH,Olsson L

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Zygosaccharomyces bailii, known to have peculiar resistance to several environmental constraints, is very little known with respect to its genetics and life cycle. In addition to molecular and biochemical studies, cytofluorimetric and morphological analyses can also add information necessary to shed light on...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Dato L,Sauer M,Passolunghi S,Porro D,Branduardi P

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coenzyme Q is a redox-active lipid that functions as an electron carrier in the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Q-biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae requires at least nine proteins (Coq1p-Coq9p). The molecular function of Coq8p is still unknown; however, lack of Q and the concomitant accumulation of the interme...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Tauche A,Krause-Buchholz U,Rödel G

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Promoter of alcohol oxidase I (PAOX1) is the most efficient promoter involved in the regulation of recombinant protein expression in Pichia pastoris (P. pastoris). PAOX1 is tightly repressed by the presence of glycerol in the culture medium; thus, glycerol must be exhausted before methanol can be taken up by P. pastor...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Zhan C,Wang S,Sun Y,Dai X,Liu X,Harvey L,McNeil B,Yang Y,Bai Z

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast vacuolar membrane protein Ycf1p and its mammalian counterpart, MRP1, belong to the ABCC subfamily of ATP-binding cassette transporters. Genetic evidence suggests that the yeast casein kinase 2α, Cka1p, negatively regulates Ycf1p function via phosphorylation of Ser251 within the N-terminus. In this study, we ...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Pickin KA,Ezenwajiaku N,Overcash H,Sethi M,Knecht MR,Paumi CM

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:Every year more than 2 million tons of citric acid (CA) are produced around the world for industrial uses. Although initially extracted from citrus, the low profitability of the process and the increasing demand soon stimulated the search for more efficient methods to produce CA. Currently, most world CA demand (99%) ...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Cavallo E,Charreau H,Cerrutti P,Foresti ML

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous communications the essential role of spermidine in Ustilago maydis was demonstrated by means of the disruption of the genes encoding ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) and spermidine synthase (SPE). However, the assignation of specific roles to each polyamine in different cellular functions was not possible bec...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Valdés-Santiago L,Guzmán-de-Peña D,Ruiz-Herrera J

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：:Five yeast isolates obtained from cashew tree flowers in Nigeria resembled Cryptococcus neoformans phenotypically by producing brown pigmented colonies on niger seed agar, expressing a capsule, and being able to grow at 37 degrees C. However, rRNA gene sequences, including the 18S rRNA gene, the D1/D2 domains of the 2...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Okoli I,Oyeka CA,Kwon-Chung KJ,Theelen B,Robert V,Groenewald JZ,McFadden DC,Casadevall A,Boekhout T

更新日期：2007-03-01 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：:The pathogenic fungus Candida glabrata is relatively resistant to azole antifungals, which target lanosterol 14α-demethylase (Erg11p) in the ergosterol biosynthesis pathway. Our study revealed that C. glabrata exhibits increased azole susceptibility under low-iron conditions. To investigate the molecular basis of this...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Hosogaya N,Miyazaki T,Nagi M,Tanabe K,Minematsu A,Nagayoshi Y,Yamauchi S,Nakamura S,Imamura Y,Izumikawa K,Kakeya H,Yanagihara K,Miyazaki Y,Kugiyama K,Kohno S

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida lipolytica and Candida rugosa were isolated from blood samples from a patient with chronic myeloid leukemia (31 years old) and a patient with sickle cell disease (1-year-old), respectively. Isolates were grown for 48 h at 37 degrees C in either Sabouraud or tryptone soy broth (TSB). Peptidases were tested for ...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： De Melo AC,Dornelas-Ribeiro M,De Souza EP,Macrae A,Fracalanzza SE,Vermelho AB

更新日期：2007-09-01 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：:Endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRTs) are involved in the formation of multivesicular bodies and sorting of targeted proteins to the yeast vacuole. The deletion of seven genes encoding components of the ESCRT machinery render Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells sensitive to high extracellular CaCl2 co...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Papouskova K,Jiang L,Sychrova H

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we report on the results of a survey of the yeast populations occurring on submerged leaves (alder, eucalyptus and oak) in a natural mountain stream, during different phases of their decomposition and through two consecutive years. Leaf litter mass loss, total yeast counts, Shannon-Weiner index (H'), yeast commun...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Sampaio A,Sampaio JP,Leão C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00