The pan-genome of Aspergillus fumigatus provides a high-resolution view of its population structure revealing high levels of lineage-specific diversity driven by …

LA Lofgren, BS Ross, RA Cramer, JE Stajich - PLoS Biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Aspergillus fumigatus is a deadly agent of human fungal disease where virulence
heterogeneity is thought to be at least partially structured by genetic variation between …

Genetic engineering and synthetic genomics in yeast to understand life and boost biotechnology

D Schindler - Bioengineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
The field of genetic engineering was born in 1973 with the “construction of biologically
functional bacterial plasmids in vitro”. Since then, a vast number of technologies have been …

Genomic Adaptations of Saccharomyces Genus to Wine Niche

E García-Ríos, JM Guillamón - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Wine yeast have been exposed to harsh conditions for millennia, which have led to adaptive
evolutionary strategies. Thus, wine yeasts from Saccharomyces genus are considered an …

Bayesian genome scale modelling identifies thermal determinants of yeast metabolism

G Li, Y Hu, J Zrimec, H Luo, H Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The molecular basis of how temperature affects cell metabolism has been a long-standing
question in biology, where the main obstacles are the lack of high-quality data and methods …

Transporter proteins as ecological assets and features of microbial eukaryotic Pangenomes

DS Milner, LJ Galindo, NAT Irwin… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Here we review two connected themes in evolutionary microbiology:(a) the nature of gene
repertoire variation within species groups (pangenomes) and (b) the concept of metabolite …

Performance of regression models as a function of experiment noise

G Li, J Zrimec, B Ji, J Geng, J Larsbrink… - … and Biology Insights, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: A challenge in developing machine learning regression models is that it is
difficult to know whether maximal performance has been reached on the test dataset, or …

A Pan-Draft Metabolic Model Reflects Evolutionary Diversity across 332 Yeast Species

H Lu, EJ Kerkhoven, J Nielsen - Biomolecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Yeasts are increasingly employed in synthetic biology as chassis strains, including
conventional and non-conventional species. It is still unclear how genomic evolution …

Haploid Genome Analysis Reveals a Tandem Cluster of Four HSP20 Genes Involved in the High-Temperature Adaptation of Coriolopsis trogii

L Wang, B Liao, L Gong, S Xiao… - Microbiology Spectrum, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Coriolopsis trogii is a typical thermotolerant basidiomycete fungus, but its thermotolerance
mechanisms are currently unknown. In this study, two monokaryons of C. trogii strain Ct001 …

Combined Pan-, Population-, and Phylo-Genomic Analysis of Aspergillus fumigatus Reveals Population Structure and Lineage-Specific Diversity

LA Lofgren, BS Ross, RA Cramer, JE Stajich - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Aspergillus fumigatus is a deadly agent of human fungal disease, where virulence
heterogeneity is thought to be at least partially structured by genetic variation between …

Meta-analysis of dispensable essential genes and their interactions with bypass suppressors

C Pons, J van Leeuwen - Life Science Alliance, 2024 - life-science-alliance.org
Genes have been historically classified as essential or non-essential based on their
requirement for viability. However, genomic mutations can sometimes bypass the …