Characterisation of the mating-type locus of the plant pathogenic ascomycete Leptosphaeria maculans.

abstract：:Arenicin-1, a 21-mer antimicrobial peptide exerts significant broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity with membrane-active mechanisms. However, owing to multiple mechanisms of cell death, the antibacterial mechanism of arenicin-1 requires detailed analysis. In the present study, arenicin-1-treated bacteria underwent an ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Lee H,Lee DG

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hansenula polymorpha per6-210 mutant is impaired in respect of growth on methanol (Mut-) and is characterized by aberrant peroxisome formation. The functionally complementing DNA fragment contains two open reading frames. The first encodes dihydroxyacetone kinase (DAK), a cytosolic enzyme essential for formaldehyd...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： van der Klei IJ,van der Heide M,Baerends RJ,Rechinger KB,Nicolay K,Kiel JA,Veenhuis M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are at least ten plant diseases caused by Alternaria species in which host-specific toxins (HSTs) are responsible for fungal pathogenicity. Of these HST-producers, seven are considered distinct pathotypes of the species Alternaria alternata, and the remaining three are among other species of pathogenic Alternari...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Akamatsu H,Taga M,Kodama M,Johnson R,Otani H,Kohmoto K

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How group I introns originate in nuclear ribosomal (r)RNA genes is an important question in evolutionary biology. Central to this issue is the multitude of group I introns present in evolutionarily distantly related plant, fungal, and protist lineages, together with an understanding of their origin and lateral transfe...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Bhattacarya D,Cannone JJ,Gutell RR

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomere maintenance mechanism is poorly studied in quiescence, a reversible non-proliferative state. We previously described in fission yeast a new mode of repair of telomeres named STEEx, that specifically operates in post-mitotic cells harboring eroded telomeres. This mechanism, promoted by transcription-induced te...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Maestroni L,Géli V,Coulon S

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A screening of haploid yeast strains for enhanced resistance to nitrogen mustard (HN2) yielded a recessive mutant allele, hnm1, that conferred hyper-resistance (HYR) to HN2. Diploids, homo- or heterozygous for the HNM1 locus, exhibit normal wild-type like resistance while homozygosity for hnm1 leads to the phenotype H...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Haase E,Brendel M

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Timely progression of living cells through the cell cycle is precisely regulated. This involves a series of phosphorylation events which are regulated by various cyclins, activated in coordination with the cell cycle progression. Phosphorylated proteins govern cell growth, division as well as duplication of the geneti...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Dmowski M,Fijałkowska IJ

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homologous recombination repairs discontinuities in DNA including single-strand gaps (SSGs) and double-strand breaks (DSBs). This commentary describes how the RecBCD and RecF pathways might be exchangeable for the repair of their respective DSB and SSG canonical substrates. In particular, I will discuss how the RecBCD...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Pagès V

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cdc42p GTPase regulates multiple signal transduction pathways through its interactions with downstream effectors. Specific functional domains within Cdc42p are required for guanine-nucleotide binding, interactions with downstream effectors, and membrane localization. However, little is known about how Cdc42p is cl...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Richman TJ,Toenjes KA,Morales SE,Cole KC,Wasserman BT,Taylor CM,Koster JA,Whelihan MF,Johnson DI

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA library made from Euglena polyadenylated RNA has been constructed in the expression vector lambda gt11. The library was screened with antibodies directed against the LHCP apoproteins. Several putative LHCP clones were isolated and analyzed. We present the nucleotide and derived amino-acid sequence of an 800 bp ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Houlne G,Schantz R

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirteen chromosomal-sized DNA bands of the cultivated mushroom Agaricus bisporus have been resolved using the method of clamped homogeneous electric field (CHEF) electrophoresis. Using chromosome size standards from Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans, the estimated size of the ch...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Lodder S,Gull K,Wood D

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on replicative and chronological aging in Saccharomyces cerevisiae have greatly advanced our understanding of how longevity is regulated in all eukaryotes. Chronological lifespan (CLS) of yeast is defined as the age-dependent viability of non-dividing cell populations. A number of nutrient sensing and signal t...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Zhang N,Cao L

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA polymerases are evolved to extend the 3'-OH of a growing primer annealed to a template DNA substrate. Since replicative DNA polymerases have a limited role while replicating structurally distorted template, translesion DNA polymerases mostly from Y-family come to the rescue of stalled replication fork and maintain...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Acharya N,Manohar K,Peroumal D,Khandagale P,Patel SK,Sahu SR,Kumari P

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The A-pathway of development in the basidiomycete fungus Schizophyllum commune may be activated by either of two mating-type loci, A alpha and A beta. A alpha consists of two multiallelic genes, Y and Z. Y contains a putative homeodomain; Z contains a homeodomain-related region. Non-self combinations of Y and Z form h...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Shen GP,Park DC,Ullrich RC,Novotny CP

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has emerged as a superb model species in plant biology. Although the alga is easily transformable, the low efficiency of transgene expression from the Chlamydomonas nuclear genome has severely hampered functional genomics research. For example, poor transgene expres...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Shao N,Bock R

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and sequenced human and bovine cDNAs for the beta subunit of the ATP synthase (ATP-syn beta), a nuclear DNA (nDNA) encoded oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) gene. The two cDNAs were found to share 99% amino acid homology and 94% nucleotide homology. The evolutionary rate of ATPsyn beta was then compare...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Wallace DC,Ye JH,Neckelmann SN,Singh G,Webster KA,Greenberg BD

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HOG pathway is an important mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signal transduction pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae that mediates adaptation of cells to hyper-osmotic stress. Activation of this pathway causes rapid but transient, phosphorylation of the MAPK Hog1p. Phosphorylated Hog1p is rapidly transporte...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Sharma P,Meena N,Aggarwal M,Mondal AK

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mating-type ( MAT) genes from Rhynchosporium secalis were isolated using PCR-based methods. Characterisation of the MAT idiomorphs suggests that R. secalis is closely related to the discomycetes Pyrenopeziza brassicae and Tapesia yallundae in terms of sequence and MAT locus gene composition. The MAT1-2 idiomorph c...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Foster SJ,Fitt BD

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cAMP-dependent protein kinases (PKA) are ubiquitous signalling molecules that mediate many extracellular signals in eukaryotes from yeast to men. Directing PKA to its substrates is an important level of control to ensure specificity of cAMP-mediated signal transduction. Unlike in yeast and fungi, in mammalian cells a ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Griffioen G,Thevelein JM

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular proteins of filamentous fungi are important for biomedical and biotechnological applications. Aspergillus terreus not only comprises an important class of organisms that have significant commercial relevance to the biotechnology industry, but also is an emerging fungal pathogen. However, no information i...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Han MJ,Kim NJ,Lee SY,Chang HN

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells divide with appropriate frequency by coupling division to growth-that is, cells divide only when they have grown sufficiently large. This process is poorly understood, but has been studied using cell size mutants. In principle, mutations affecting cell size could affect the mean size ("set-point" mutants), or th...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Chen Y,Futcher B

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Bands of dsRNA were detected in five out of seven isolates of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium flavoviride. The identity of these bands was proven by RNase and S1-nuclease treatments. The transference of dsRNA between isolates (from CG291 to CG442) was successfully carried out through forced heterokaryons. Isog...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Martins MK,Furlaneto MC,Sosa-Gomez DR,Faria MR,Fungaro MH

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transforming DNAs form cointegrates in Aspergillus nidulans by homologous and non-homologous recombination as well as by end-to-end ligation of linear fragments. This process has been studied by means of a model in which the linkage of a marker gene to the origin of autonomous replication AMA1 was selected for. Recomb...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Aleksenko AY

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phyto-pathogenic fungi can cause huge damage to crop production. During millions of years of coexistence, fungi have evolved diverse life-style to obtain nutrients from the host and to colonize upon them. They deploy various proteinaceous as well as non-proteinaceous secreted molecules commonly referred as effectors t...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Pradhan A,Ghosh S,Sahoo D,Jha G

更新日期：2020-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the size, the restriction map and the gene order of the mitochondrial genome of the yeast Saccharomyces uvarum. Sequence analysis of the mitochondrial COXII gene confirmed the position of this yeast in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae-like group, near Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces douglasii...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Cardazzo B,Minuzzo S,Sartori G,Grapputo A,Carignani G

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the RecA-like genes RAD51 and RAD57 reduce the frequency of gene conversion/reciprocal exchange between inverted repeats 7-fold. However, they enhance the frequency of deletions between direct repeats 5-12-fold. These induced deletions are RAD1- and RAD52-dependent. On the basis of these results it is pro...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Aguilera A

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:URA4, the gene coding for orotidine monophosphate decarboxylase (OMPdecase), has been cloned from the fission yeast by homologous complementation and restricted in an Escherichia coli-Schizosaccharomyces pombe (E. coli-S. pombe) replicative plasmid to a 1.76 kb HindIII fragment. This plasmid is maintained at a high co...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Bach ML

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cluster of three tRNA genes located on fragment Bam6a from Vicia faba chloroplast DNA has been sequenced: it contains the genes for tRNA(CAALeu), tRNA(UAALeu) and tRNA(Phe). The two tRNA(Leu) genes are separated by 443 bp and are transcribed divergently from different DNA strands. The intergenic region contains a se...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Bonnard G,Weil JH,Steinmetz A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A naturally occurring single base-pair G to A transition, creating a 10/11 near-match close to the essential 11 base-pair core consensus of ARS1, was used to investigate the importance of near-match sequences. The 10/11 near-match can not substitute for the core consensus since an ARS- phenotype is observed when the c...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Kirpekar F,Gulløv K

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The putative gene encoding acetyl-CoA carboxylase, accA, has been isolated from Aspergillus nidulans. This single-copy gene has an open reading frame (ORF) of 6864 bp and contains two small introns near the 5'-end. A short ORF upstream of the ATG start codon has been identified in this gene by RT-PCR. Based on sequenc...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Morrice J,MacKenzie DA,Parr AJ,Archer DB

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00