Arenicin-1-induced apoptosis-like response requires RecA activation and hydrogen peroxide against Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Full genome recoding, or rewriting codon meaning, through chemical synthesis of entire bacterial chromosomes has become feasible in the past several years. Recoding an organism can impart new properties including non-natural amino acid incorporation, virus resistance, and biocontainment. The estimated cost of construc...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Kuo J,Stirling F,Lau YH,Shulgina Y,Way JC,Silver PA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell fusion occurs regularly during the vegetative and sexual phases of the life cycle in filamentous fungi. Here, we present a simple and efficient method that can detect even rare hyphal fusion events. Using the homothallic ascomycete Sordaria macrospora as an experimental system, we developed a histone-assisted mer...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Rech C,Engh I,Kück U

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mammalian HBP2 gene has been isolated by functional complementation of cells unable to undergo DNA replication in fission yeast. HBP2 is a protein with a high mobility group (HMG) domain that belongs to the Sox (Sry-related HMG box) family of transcription factors. As in other members of the family, the HMG box in...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Sánchez-Díaz A,Blanco MA,Jones N,Moreno S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a new nuclear gene, CBT1 (Cytochrome B Termination), specifically involved in the generation of mature mRNA of cytochrome b in yeast mitochondria. Disruption of CBT1 (corresponding to ORF YKL 208W) results in a respiratory deficiency (no growth on acetate and ethanol, a reduced growth on glycerol, and a mo...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Rieger KJ,Aljinovic G,Lazowska J,Pohl TM,Slonimski PP,Aljinovic G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell aging is the result of deteriorating competence in maintaining cellular homeostasis and quality control. Certain cell types are able to rejuvenate through asymmetric cell division by excluding aging factors, including damaged cellular compartments and extrachromosomal rDNA circles, from entering the daughter cell...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Koch-Bojalad BA,Carson L,Yu HG

更新日期：2020-11-27 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：: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：:Chemoreceptor-based signaling is a major bacterial signal transduction mechanism. Escherichia coli, the traditional model, has five chemoreceptors. Recent genome analyses have shown that many bacteria have a much higher number of chemoreceptors. Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is an alternative model that has 27 chemorecept...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： López-Farfán D,Reyes-Darias JA,Krell T

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the mitochondrial genomes of the Chinese Spring and Aquila varieties of wheat are normally similar in organization, this is not so in tissue cultures initiated from their immature embryos where the mitochondrial genomes of both are rearranged and in different, characteristic, ways. However, the mitochondrial ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Hartmann C,De Buyser J,Henry Y,Morère-Le Paven MC,Dyer TA,Rode A

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：:The chloroplast genome of black pine (Pinus thunbergii), a gymnosperm, contains 32 different tRNA genes, 30 of which correspond to those previously identified in tobacco and rice chloroplast genomes. Two additional genes encode tRNA(Pro) (GGG) and tRNA(Arg) (CCG); the former is newly identified while the latter is pre...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Tsudzuki J,Ito S,Tsudzuki T,Wakasugi T,Sugiura M

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used a PCR-based technique, involving the random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD), to assess genome variability between 21 isolates from F. solani f. sp. cucurbitae races 1 and 2. Based on RAPD marker patterns the isolates fell into two distinct groups corresponding to mating populations MPI and MPV. Fo...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Crowhurst RN,Hawthorne BT,Rikkerink EH,Templeton MD

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using the fluorochrome 4'-6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) to stain DNA one can follow the pattern of events affecting plastid DNA which occur in the formation and maturation of individual zygotes of the green flagellate Chlamydomonas moewusii. This species, like C. reinhardi, expresses uniparental inheritance of ...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Coleman AW,Maguire MJ

更新日期：1983-06-01 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 steady-state transcript levels for psbA, psbD, psaA and rbcL are low in dark-grown rice seedlings as compared to those grown in light. Following seed germination, they accumulate in an age-dependent manner, in dark as well as light, reaching a maximal level on the 7th or 8th day, before a slow decline sets in. But...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Kapoor S,Maheshwari SC,Tyagi AK

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To supply abundant ribosomes, multiple copies of ribosomal RNA genes (rDNA) are conserved from bacterial to human cells. In eukaryotic genomes, clusters of tandemly repeated rDNA units are present, and their number is stably maintained. Due to high level of transcription of rRNA genes, the repetitive structure is pron...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Iida T,Kobayashi T

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:A gene of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, coding for the translation elongation factor 1 alpha (EF-1 alpha), was isolated from a P. graminis genomic library using the EF-1 alpha gene sequence of Absidia glauca. The coding region of 1389 nucleotides encodes a polypeptide of 463 amino acids and is interrupted by eight...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Schillberg S,Gross P,Tiburzy R

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S. cerevisiae strain h56 is a temperature-sensitive mit- mutant containing a single nucleotide substitution in the region 5' to the reading frame of the mitochondrial var1 gene. The mutation decreases the efficiency of processing of a precursor RNA such that little var1 mRNA is produced at the restrictive temperat...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Smooker PM,Macreadie IJ,Wright JL,Lukins HB

更新日期：1994-03-01 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 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：:Phosphatidylcholines (PCs) are a class of major cell membrane phospholipids that participate in many physiological processes. Three genes, choA, choB and choC, have been proposed to function in the endogenous biosynthesis of PC in Aspergillus nidulans. In this study, we characterize the choC gene encoding a putative h...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Tao L,Gao N,Chen S,Yu JH

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately, 1% of the genes in eukaryotic genomes encode for helicases, which make the number of helicases expressed in the cell considerably high. Helicases are motor proteins that participate in many central aspects of the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes, and based on their helicase motif conservation, they are...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Sabouri N

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurospora crassa wild type genome shows DNA sequences which are homologous to the sequences present in the rRNA processing genes of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Five such processing genes from yeast, viz., RNA1 through RNA5, cloned in plasmid pBR322 were transformed in Escherichia coli strain LE392. Southern b...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Dutta SK,Verma M,Verma M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion mutants for the yeast transketolase gene TKL1 were constructed by gene replacement. Transketolase activity was below the level of detection in mutant crude extracts. Transketolase protein could be detected as a single protein band of the expected size by Western-blot analysis in wild-type strains but not in t...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Schaaff-Gerstenschläger I,Zimmermann FK

更新日期：1993-11-01 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：:In the wood destroying fungus Schizophyllum commune, a well known subject for genetic studies, fruit bodies are produced not only in the course of the sexual cycle but also asexually. Sexual fruiting requires the establishment of a dikaryon which is under the control of the incompatibility factors A and B. Asexual fru...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Esser K,Saleh F,Meinhardt F

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the expression of the nit1 gene encoding nitrate reductase is dependent on the nature of the nitrogen source and on other environmental factors. We have fused the nit1 promoter region to the arylsulphatase (ars) reporter gene lacking its own promoter and introduced this chimeric construct...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Ohresser M,Matagne RF,Loppes R

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Neurospora crassa cytoplasmic ribosomal protein gene, crp-5, has been isolated and characterized. The cDNA was isolated by a differential screening of a cDNA library for glucose-inducible genes. The cDNA was subsequently used to identify and isolate crp-5 genomic sequences. Computer analysis of the DNA sequences sho...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Wang Z,Tarawneh KA,Free SJ

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Work in recent years has produced indirect evidence to support the view that the phenomenon of suppressiveness in yeast is the result of the ability of the petite mtDNA to out-replicate the wild-type genome. We have developed a method, based on fluorography of gels containing restriction fragments of radioactively lab...

journal_title：Current genetics

authors： Chambers P,Gingold E

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00