The choC gene encoding a putative phospholipid methyltransferase is essential for growth and development in Aspergillus nidulans.

abstract：:Retrotransposons are suitable targets for developing molecular markers for population genetics studies. Transposable elements have not yet been isolated from ectomycorrhizal fungi of the genus Tuber. In this paper, we report on the isolation and characterization of Tmt1, an LTR-retrotransposon from Tuber melanosporum....

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Riccioni C,Rubini A,Belfiori B,Passeri V,Paolocci F,Arcioni S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycorrhizal ascomycetes are ecologically and commercially important fungi that have proved impervious to genetic transformation so far. We report here on the successful transient transformation of Tuber borchii, an ectomycorrhizal ascomycete that colonizes a variety of trees and produces highly prized hypogeous fruitb...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Grimaldi B,de Raaf MA,Filetici P,Ottonello S,Ballario P

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced a region (7,376-bp) of the mitochondrial (mt) DNA (54 kb) of the cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium discoideum. From the DNA and amino-acid sequence comparisons with known sequences, genes for ATPase subunit 9 (ATP9), cytochrome b (CYTB), NADH dehydrogenase subunits 1, 3 and 6 (ND1, ND3 and ND6), sma...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Angata K,Kuroe K,Yanagisawa K,Tanaka Y

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By completing and correcting the sequence of a 1.8 kb DNA segment downstream of the oxi2 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a long, potentially coding sequence ("RF2") has been identified. The sequence is rather closely related to the RF1 open reading frame, downstream of the oxil gene, and, further, to the major famil...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Michel F

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently discovered the novel non-chromosomal determinant in Saccharomyces cerevisiae [NSI(+)] (nonsense suppression inducer), which causes omnipotent nonsense suppression in strains where the Sup35 N-terminal domain is deleted. [NSI(+)] possesses yeast prion features and does not correspond to previously identifie...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Nizhnikov AA,Magomedova ZM,Rubel AA,Kondrashkina AM,Inge-Vechtomov SG,Galkin AP

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cheese-making filamentous fungi lack suitable molecular tools to improve their biotechnology potential. Penicillium roqueforti, a species of high industrial importance, would benefit from functional data yielded by molecular genetic approaches. This work provides the first example of gene replacement by homologou...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Goarin A,Silar P,Malagnac F

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current strategies to improve the secretion of heterologous proteins from Aspergillus niger include the manipulation of chaperones and foldases specific to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). Here we report the isolation of a gene, pdiA, encoding a putative protein disulphide isomerase (PDI) from A. niger using the Saccha...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Ngiam C,Jeenes DJ,Archer DB

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The search for novel pathological and functional amyloids represents one of the most important tasks of contemporary biomedicine. Formation of pathological amyloid fibrils in the aging brain causes incurable neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Huntington's diseases. At the same time, a set of ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Ryzhova TA,Sopova JV,Zadorsky SP,Siniukova VA,Sergeeva AV,Galkina SA,Nizhnikov AA,Shenfeld AA,Volkov KV,Galkin AP

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic analysis of carotenogenesis in Phycomyces is hampered by the inability of most mutants to complete the sexual cycle. Heterokaryons between complementing mutants or between a mutant and a helper strain are, however, fertile. Using this method crosses have been carried out between mutants representing the differ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Roncero MI,Cerdá-Olmedo E

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione (GSH) is an abundantly produced low-molecular-weight (LMW) thiol in many organisms. However, a number of Gram-positive bacteria do not produce GSH, but instead produce bacillithiol (BSH) as one of the major LMW thiols. Similar to GSH, studies have found that BSH has various roles in the cell, including pro...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Rosario-Cruz Z,Boyd JM

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Cys6Zn2 DNA-binding domain transcription factor Pdr1 is a central regulator of drug resistance in the pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata. In this review, I discuss the multiple control mechanisms modulating the function of this positive transcriptional regulator. Available data suggest that Pdr1 activity is restrai...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Moye-Rowley WS

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure for stable transformation was developed for Phytophthora megasperma f. sp. glycinea, an oomycete pathogen of soybean. Transformants were obtained using a bacterial hygromycin resistance gene fused to a promoter and terminator from the ham34 gene of another oomycete, Bremia lactucae. Vector DNA, alone or co...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Judelson HS,Coffey MD,Arredondo FR,Tyler BM

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:Genetic and molecular analyses of the phenomenon of senescence-i.e., irreversible loss of growth and reproductive potential upon subculturing-in Neurospora intermedia strain M1991-60A, collected from Maddur in southern India, showed the presence of plasmid pMaddur1, which is homologous to the senescence-inducing circu...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： D'Souza AD,Sultana S,Maheshwari R

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The soil-borne, asexual fungus Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici (Fol) is a causal agent of tomato wilt disease. The infection process of Fol comprises root recognition, adhesion, penetration, colonization of the root cortex and hyphal proliferation within the xylem vessels, which are under the regulation of virule...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Yun Y,Zhou X,Yang S,Wen Y,You H,Zheng Y,Norvienyeku J,Shim WB,Wang Z

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The zinc finger transcription factor Crz1 is an important downstream regulator of calcium-dependent signal transduction pathways in many organisms. The function of Crz1 in the wheat-head blight pathogen Fusarium graminearum remains unclear. In this study, we identified and functionally characterised FgCrz1A, a potenti...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Chen L,Tong Q,Zhang C,Ding K

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：:The CYP1 gene has previously been identified as coding for a positive trans active factor that activates the expression of CYC1 and CYP3, which are the structural genes for isol1- and iso2-cytochrome c. Two phenotypically distinct classes of CYP1 mutations can be obtained indicating that CYC1 and CYP3 are differential...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Verdière J,Creusot F,Guarente L,Slonimski PP

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An Agrocybe aegerita cDNA library, constructed from fruit body primordia poly(A)+ RNAs, was screened by differential colony hybridization. Clones which preferentially hybridized to poly(A)+ RNA sequences from fruit body primordia, versus poly(A)+ RNAs from mycelium, were isolated. Eight of these clones (EMAa-1 to EMAa...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Salvado JC,Labarère J

更新日期：1991-08-01 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：:The meiotic recombination gene rec10, which encodes a region-specific activator of recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, has been cloned by genetic complementation and its nucleotide sequence determined. The rec10 gene was identified in a 5.6-kb cloned fragment by partial-deletion and insertion experiments. The ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Lin Y,Smith GR

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：:The mating type (MAT) locus of the lentil pathogen, Ascochyta lentis, was cloned and characterized using thermal asymmetric interlaced and inverse PCR with primers designed to the HMG-box of Ascochyta rabiei. A multiplex PCR assay for mating type was developed based on MAT idiomorph and flanking sequences. Primers wer...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Chérif M,Chilvers MI,Akamatsu H,Peever TL,Kaiser WJ

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous fungus Coleophoma empetri F-11899 produces an echinocandin-like compound FR901379, the original source for micafungin which is prescribed to treat deep-seated mycoses. Despite its industrial importance, no genetic information on C. empetri F-11899 is currently available. To characterize FR901379 biosyn...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Yamada M,Yawata K,Orino Y,Ueda S,Isogai Y,Taguchi G,Shimosaka M,Hashimoto S

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloroplast DNA from the fern Osmunda einnamomea was isolated by a sucrose gradient procedure utilizing PEG to stabilize chloroplasts. Analysis with the restriction endonucleases PvuII, Sacl and BstEII indicates a chloroplast genome size of 144 kb. A physical map of the fragments produced by these three enzymes was co...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Palmer JD,Stein DB

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two plasmids containing Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2 µm DNA sequences and the S. cerevisiae LEU2 gene have been found to display incompatibility with 2 µm DNA; in the presence of the LEU2 plasmids, 2 µm DNA can be lost. The LEU2 plasmids can be lost spontaneously after (and before) 2 µm DNA loss has occurred, so that st...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Dobson MJ,Futcher AB,Cox BS

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hybrid selectable marker for transformation was constructed by placing the promoter (TEF1p) from the gene encoding the Aureobasidium pullulans translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF1) adjacent to the 5' end of the Escherichia coli hygromycin B phosphotransferase gene (HPT). Plasmids containing this hybrid gene (...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Thornewell SJ,Peery RB,Skatrud PL

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：:The sequence of a representative mitochondrial gene COXI, encoding cytochrome c oxidase subunit I, was determined in five species that cover all the orders of the Prymnesiophyta with the exception of the Pavlovales. Through this analysis, we noticed that the 'stop' codon UGA appears frequently and, specifically, at co...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Hayashi-Ishimaru Y,Ehara M,Inagaki Y,Ohama T

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

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