Studies on the inactivation of medically important Candida species on agar surfaces using pulsed light.

abstract：:The yeast Pichia pastoris is a widely used host organism for heterologous protein production. One of the basic steps for strain improvement is to ensure a sufficient level of transcription of the heterologous gene, based on promoter strength and gene copy number. To date, high-copy-number integrants of P. pastoris are...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Marx H,Mecklenbräuker A,Gasser B,Sauer M,Mattanovich D

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Killer-toxin complexes produced by Kluyveromyces lactis and Pichia acaciae inhibit cell proliferation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Analysis of their actions in haploid MATalpha cells revealed that introduction of the opposite mating-type locus (MATa) significantly suppressed antizymosis. Together with resistance expre...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Klassen R,Jablonowski D,Stark MJ,Schaffrath R,Meinhardt F

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening for genes affecting super-secreting phenotype of the over-secreting mutant of Kluyveromyces lactis resulted in isolation of the gene named KlMNN10, sharing high homology with Saccharomyces cerevisiae MNN10. The disruption of the KlMNN10 in Kluyveromyces lactis, as well as of MNN10 and MNN11 in Saccharomyces ...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Bartkeviciūte D,Sasnauskas K

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：: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：: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：:Microorganisms have been studied and used extensively to produce value-added fuels and chemicals. Yeasts, specifically Saccharomyces cerevisiae, receive industrial attention because of their well-known ability to ferment glucose and produce ethanol. Thousands of natural or genetically modified S. cerevisiae have been ...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Kong II,Turner TL,Kim H,Kim SR,Jin YS

更新日期：2018-02-01 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：:Penicillin G amidase from Providencia rettgeri is a heterodimer of 92 kDa. We have previously expressed the Pr. rettgeri pac gene coding for this enzyme in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and now we report the expression and characterization in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris. The recombinant catalytically active e...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Sevo M,Degrassi G,Skoko N,Venturi V,Ljubijankić G

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three ascomycetous yeast strains were isolated from decaying green wine grapes, collected from Hyderabad city in India. Two strains, YS9 and YS21, were identified as Kodamaea ohmeri and Candida fermentati, respectively. The third strain, YS12(T), differs from Candida parapsilosis, Candida orthopsilosis and Candida met...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Rao RS,Bhadra B,Kumar NN,Shivaji S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldose-1-epimerase or mutarotase (EC 5.1.3.3) catalyzes interconversion of alpha/beta-anomers of aldoses, such as glucose and galactose, and is distributed in a wide variety of organisms from bacteria to humans. Nevertheless, the physiological role of this enzyme has been elusive in most cases, because the alpha-form ...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Fukasawa T,Sakurai H,Nogi Y,Baruffini E

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malassezia pachydermatis isolates (n=185) from skin sites from dogs (n=30) were characterized genetically and biochemically following in vitro culture. Two regions in the chitin synthase-2 gene (chs-2) and the first internal transcribed spacer (ITS-1) of nuclear ribosomal DNA were sequenced, and the phospholipase acti...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Cafarchia C,Gasser RB,Latrofa MS,Parisi A,Campbell BE,Otranto D

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional regulator Pdr1 plays a positive role in regulating azole drug resistance in Candida glabrata. Previous studies have shown the importance of the carboxyl (C)-terminal sequence of Pdr1 in fulfilling its function, as this region mediates interactions between Pdr1 and the co-activator Gal11A and is cru...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Tian Y,Gao N,Ni Q,Mao Y,Dong D,Huang X,Jiang C,Li Z,Zhang L,Wang X,Peng Y,Chen C

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Ume6p is a nonessential transcription factor that represses meiotic gene expression during vegetative growth in budding yeast. To relieve this repression, Ume6p is destroyed as cells enter meiosis and is not resynthesized until spore wall assembly. The present study reveals that spores derived from a ume6 null homozyg...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Strich R,Khakhina S,Mallory MJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study displays a screening using yeast strains deficient in protein kinases known to exist in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. From 95 viable single mutants, 20 mutants appear to be affected in the glucose-induced extracellular acidification. The mutants that are unaffected in calcium signaling were tested for their sen...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Pereira RR,Castanheira D,Teixeira JA,Bouillet LE,Ribeiro EM,Trópia MM,Alvarez F,Correa LF,Mota BE,Conceição LE,Castro IM,Brandão RL

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interspecies hybridization is an important evolutionary mechanism in yeasts. The genus Zygosaccharomyces in particular contains numerous hybrid strains and/or species. Here, we investigated the genome of Zygosaccharomyces strain MT15, an isolate from Maotai-flavor Chinese liquor fermentation. We found that it is an in...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Braun-Galleani S,Ortiz-Merino RA,Wu Q,Xu Y,Wolfe KH

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GPD1 gene encoding the glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase was overexpressed in an industrial lager brewing yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae ssp. carlsbergensis) to reduce the content of ethanol in beer. The amount of glycerol produced by the GPD1-overexpressing yeast in fermentation experiments simulating brewing c...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Nevoigt E,Pilger R,Mast-Gerlach E,Schmidt U,Freihammer S,Eschenbrenner M,Garbe L,Stahl U

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:First-generation (1G) fuel ethanol production in sugarcane-based biorefineries is an established economic enterprise in Brazil. Second-generation (2G) fuel ethanol from lignocellulosic materials, though extensively investigated, is currently facing severe difficulties to become economically viable. Some of the challen...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Bermejo PM,Raghavendran V,Gombert AK

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:Although exposure of Candida albicans cells to high-dose (4 mM) methylprednisolone stimulated microbial growth, germination rate in serum and phospholipase release, it also promoted the recognition of C. albicans cells by polymorphonuclear leukocytes. Pretreatment of C. albicans cells with methylprednisolone did not r...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Gyetvai A,Emri T,Fekete A,Varga Z,Gazdag Z,Pesti M,Belágyi J,Emõdy L,Pócsi I,Lenkey B

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial consortium of wine fermentations is highly dependent upon winemaking decisions made at crush, including the decision to inoculate and the decision to add sulfur dioxide (SO2) to the must. To investigate this, Chardonnay grape juice was subjected to two inoculation treatments (uninoculated and pied de cuv...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Morgan SC,McCarthy GC,Watters BS,Tantikachornkiat M,Zigg I,Cliff MA,Durall DM

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the most widely used fermentation organism for ethanol production. However, the gene expression regulatory networks behind the ethanol fermentation are still not fully understood. Using a static fermentation model, we examined the ethanol yields on biomass of deletion mutants for 77 yeast g...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Wu Y,Du J,Xu G,Jiang L

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transport of glucose and fructose into yeast cells is a critical step in the utilization of sugars during wine fermentation. Hexose uptake can be carried out by various Hxt carriers, each possessing distinct regulatory and transport-kinetic properties capable of influencing yeast fermentation capacity. We investig...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Perez M,Luyten K,Michel R,Riou C,Blondin B

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type strains of the thermotolerant methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha are able to ferment glucose, cellobiose and xylose to ethanol. H. polymorpha most actively fermented sugars to ethanol at 37 degrees C, whereas the well-known xylose-fermenting yeast Pichia stipitis could not effectively ferment carbon s...

journal_title：FEMS yeast research

authors： Ryabova OB,Chmil OM,Sibirny AA

更新日期：2003-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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