Macroautophagy or autophagy is a degradative pathway terminating in the lysosomal
compartment after the formation of a cytoplasmic vacuole that engulfs macromolecules and …

Glutathione, altruistic metabolite in fungi Page 2 Contents CONTRIBUTORS TO VOLUME
49 vii Glutathione, Altruistic Metabolite in Fungi Istvan Pocsi, Rolf A. Prade and Michel J …

New antifungal agents are urgently required to combat life-threatening infections caused by
opportunistic fungal pathogens like Candida albicans. The manipulation of endogenous …

Evidence is presented that mitochondria are implicated in the previously described
programmed cell death (PCD) process induced by acetic acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae …

Apoptosis is a highly regulated cellular suicide program crucial for metazoan development.
However, dysfunction of apoptosis also leads to several diseases. Yeast undergoes …

Although programmed cell death (PCD) is extensively studied in multicellular organisms, in
recent years it has been shown that a unicellular organism, yeast Saccharomyces …

Mitochondria are not only important for the energetic status of the cell, but are also the fatal
organelles deciding about cellular life and death. Complex mitochondrial features decisive …

Apoptosis is a highly coordinated cellular suicide program crucial for metazoan health and
diseases. Although its increasing importance in cancer, neurodegenerative disorders and …

In multicellular organisms, cellular growth and development can be controlled by
programmed cell death (PCD), which is defined by a sequence of regulated events …

During the last years, several reports described an apoptosis‐like programmed cell death
process in yeast in response to different environmental aggressions. Here, evidence is …