In vitro mutagenesis of the mitochondrial leucyl-tRNA synthetase of S. cerevisiae reveals residues critical for its in vivo activities.

abstract：:A delta-9 fatty acid desaturase gene, homologous to animal and fungal acyl-coenzyme A (CoA) desaturases, was isolated from the red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae using a degenerate PCR strategy. This gene, designated as CmFAD9, has no intron. The encoded delta-9 fatty acid desaturase (CmFad9p) consists of 476 amino acid...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Itoh R,Toda K,Takahashi H,Takano H,Kuroiwa T

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NRE, the nitrogen regulatory protein of Penicillium chrysogenum, contains a single Cys2/Cys2-type zinc-finger motif followed immediately by a highly basic region. The zinc-finger domain was expressed to Escherichia coli as a fusion protein with beta-galactosidase. In order to test the putative DNA-binding ability of N...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Haas H,Marzluf GA

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many species are able to hybridize, but the sterility of these hybrids effectively prevents gene flow between the species, reproductively isolating them and allowing them to evolve independently. Yeast hybrids formed by Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus parents are viable and able to grow by mitosis...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Ono J,Greig D

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Volvox carteri, regA acts as a master gene to suppress all germ cell functions in somatic cells. Its product, RegA, has features of a transcriptional repressor. Here we report cDNA sequences representing 15 nuclear genes with properties expected of RegA targets: they are expressed strongly in germ cells and in regA...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Meissner M,Stark K,Cresnar B,Kirk DL,Schmitt R

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation by natural selection might improve the fitness of an organism and its probability to survive in unfavorable environmental conditions. Decoding the genetic basis of adaptive evolution is one of the great challenges to deal with. To this purpose, Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been largely investigated because ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Tosato V,Sims J,West N,Colombin M,Bruschi CV

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fungi, vegetative incompatibility is a conspecific non-self recognition mechanism that restricts formation of viable heterokaryons when incompatible alleles of specific het loci interact. In Podospora anserina, three non-allelic incompatibility systems have been genetically defined involving interactions between he...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Chevanne D,Bastiaans E,Debets A,Saupe SJ,Clavé C,Paoletti M

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the isolation and expression profiles of a single-copy gene from the mycoparasitic fungus Trichoderma hamatum encoding a 60 S cytoplasmic ribosomal protein. The gene, named RPL36, was cloned through its nutrient-mediated expression, using mRNA differential screening. Its predicted ORF, interrupted by two int...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Fekete C,Posta K,Hornok L

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：:The Cercospora nicotianae SOR1 gene is required for resistance to singlet oxygen-generating photosensitizers. SOR1 was characterized in the wild-type and in five photosensitizer-sensitive mutant strains which are complemented to photosensitizer resistance by transformation with SOR1. Sequence analysis determined that ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Ehrenshaft M,Chung KR,Jenns AE,Daub ME

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain dependent growth on lactate in the presence of antimycin A (AA) has been observed - the strain D261 can grow on lactate and AA, whereas in the strain K8/6C antimycin A prevents the utilization of lactate and the induction of LDH.Genetic analysis demonstrates that growth on lactate in the presence of AA segreg...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Ferrero I,Rambaldelli R,Genga AM,Donnini C,Puglisi PP

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerophosphoinositol (GroPIns) and glycerophosphocholine (GroPCho) are the products of phospholipase-B mediated deacylation of phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylcholine, respectively. GroPIns and GroPCho are transported across the Saccharomyces cerevisiae plasma membrane into the cell via the transporter encoded ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Almaguer C,Fisher E,Patton-Vogt J

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mother-bud neck is defined as the boundary between the mother cell and bud in budding microorganisms, wherein sequential morphological events occur throughout the cell cycle. This study was designed to quantitatively investigate the morphology of the mother-bud neck in budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Obser...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Kubo K,Okada H,Shimamoto T,Kimori Y,Mizunuma M,Bi E,Ohnuki S,Ohya Y

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae open reading frame YDL202w has been characterised in the course of the EUROFAN yeast genome analysis program. Disruption of YDL202w causes a respiratory deficient phenotype accompanied by a loss of mitochondrial DNA. This phenotype is usually found in mutants defective in mitochondrial rep...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Bui DM,Jarosch E,Schweyen RJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-damage tolerance (DDT) is employed by eukaryotes to deal with replication blocks on the template strand, and is divided into two parallel pathways that are activated by sequential ubiquitination of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) at the Lys164 residue. Rad6-Rad18-mediated PCNA monoubiquitination promotes...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Li F,Ball LG,Fan L,Hanna M,Xiao W

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic phosphate is an essential nutrient because it is required for the biosynthesis of nucleotides, phospholipids and metabolites in energy metabolism. During phosphate starvation, phosphatases play a major role in phosphate acquisition by hydrolyzing phosphorylated macromolecules. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, PH...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Yadav KK,Singh N,Rajasekharan R

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to analyse gene expression during fruit body development of the ectomychorrizal fungus Tuber borchii Vittad., a modified differential display procedure was set up. The procedure used is easier and faster than the traditional one and generates reproducible cDNA banding patterns that can be resolved on a standa...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Zeppa S,Guidi C,Zambonelli A,Potenza L,Vallorani L,Pierleoni R,Sacconi C,Stocchi V

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When the beta 1-, beta 2- and beta 3-tubulin-specific DNAs from Drosophila melanogaster were used as probes to recognize tubulin-specific sequences in the chromosomes of Drosophila auraria, they were found to hybridize to the same polytene band in region 32C of the 2L polytene chromosome. Three overlapping clones were...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Scouras ZG,Milioni D,Yiangou M,Duchêne M,Domdey H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A double-stranded (ds)RNA, designated as M2, is associated with hypovirulence, conversion of the quinic acid pathway from inducible to constitutive and downregulation of the shikimic acid pathway in the Rhizoctonia solani culture Rhs 1A1. In this study, we report that in the virulent, M2-lacking isolate Rhs 1AP, which...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Liu C,Lakshman DK,Tavantzis SM

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endpoints of an inversion in wheat chloroplast DNA are shown to be associated with copies of a short repeated sequence. Recombination across the repeats in an inverted configuration may have been responsible for the inversion, although they are currently in a direct orientation owing to a second inversion. The rep...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Howe CJ

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model for the recombination-directed replication and amplification of the mtDNA of amphimeric petite mutants of S. cerevisiae is proposed. Replication of an amphimeric master basic unit datA would be initiated in the inverted components a and A. The initiation of replication should be associated with the amphimeric ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Rayko E,Goursot R

更新日期：1996-07-31 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：:The cellulase gene cel3 has been isolated from Agaricus bisporus and sequenced. The 5'-end of the cel3 transcript was determined by primer extension and S1 nuclease protection. Putative regulatory elements have been identified in the cel3 promoter and 3'-untranslated regions. The cel3 coding region is interrupted by s...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Yagüe E,Chow CM,Challen MP,Thurston CF

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most organisms prefer to utilize glucose as a carbon source. Accordingly, the expression of genes involved in the catabolism of other carbon sources is repressed by the presence of glucose in a process known as (carbon) catabolite repression. However, much less is known about the relationships between "poor" carbon so...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Simpson-Lavy K,Kupiec M

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type strains of Penicillium islandicum and Penicillium frequentans, which produce anthraquinone and related compounds, were transformed to benomyl and hygromycin B resistance. Plasmids pSV50 and pBT6, with benomyl-resistant beta-tublin genes, and plasmids pAN7-1 and pDH25, with a bacterial hygromycin phosphotrans...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Huang KX,Iwakami N,Fujii I,Ebizuka Y,Sankawa U

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microtubule-organizing center (MTOC) is the organelle that manages the distribution of microtubule filaments in the cell. It includes such centers of microtubule organization as basal bodies, nucleus-associated bodies, spindle pole bodies and centrosomes. The centrosome is the MTOC in most animal cells. Despite th...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Helfant AH

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitotic homologous recombination (HR) is an important mechanism for the repair of double-strand breakS and errors occurring during DNA replication. It is likely that the recombinational repair of DNA lesions occurs preferentially by sister chromatid exchanges that have no genetic consequences. However, most geneticall...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Prado F,Cortés-Ledesma F,Huertas P,Aguilera A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In fungi, sexual reproduction primarily depends on the interaction between peptide pheromones and their receptors. Most ascomycete fungi produce two classes of peptide mating pheromones, a simple peptide and a modified peptide. These peptides are recognized by their corresponding receptors on the surface of cells of t...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Seike T

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of a 7.5-kbp region from the maize cmsT mt genome was determined. Nucleotide-sequence analysis of this region reveals the presence of a ct-like trnI (CAT) gene, orf31 and orf48 which are respectively homologous to the trnI (CAT) gene in the maize and rice chloroplast genomes, and to orf28 and orf64 in...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Zheng D,Nielsen BL,Daniell H

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) repair occurs in all eukaryotic organisms and is essential for the maintenance of mitochondrial function. Evidence from both humans and yeast suggests that mismatch repair is one of the pathways that functions in overall mtDNA stability. In the mitochondria of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisi...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Mookerjee SA,Lyon HD,Sia EA

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00