Molecular and physiological basis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae tolerance to adverse lignocellulose-based process conditions

JT Cunha, A Romaní, CE Costa, I Sá-Correia… - Applied microbiology …, 2019 - Springer
Lignocellulose-based biorefineries have been gaining increasing attention to substitute
current petroleum-based refineries. Biomass processing requires a pretreatment step to …

Adaptive Response and Tolerance to Acetic Acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Zygosaccharomyces bailii: A Physiological Genomics Perspective

M Palma, JF Guerreiro, I Sá-Correia - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Acetic acid is an important microbial growth inhibitor in the food industry; it is used as a
preservative in foods and beverages and is produced during normal yeast metabolism in …

Engineering microbial membranes to increase stress tolerance of industrial strains

Y Qi, H Liu, X Chen, L Liu - Metabolic Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
The microbial membrane serves as a biological barrier that separates the interior of cells
from the external environment, thus playing an important role in tolerance to stress …

Yeast adaptive response to acetic acid stress involves structural alterations and increased stiffness of the cell wall

RA Ribeiro, MV Vitorino, CP Godinho… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
This work describes a coordinate and comprehensive view on the time course of the
alterations occurring at the level of the cell wall during adaptation of a yeast cell population …

Microbiological and biochemical performances of six yeast species as potential starter cultures for wet fermentation of coffee beans

H Elhalis, J Cox, D Frank, J Zhao - Lwt, 2021 - Elsevier
This study investigated the microbiological and biochemical characteristics of six
endogenous yeast species isolated from spontaneous wet coffee fermentation for their …

Fungal plasma membrane domains

A Athanasopoulos, B Andre… - FEMS microbiology …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The plasma membrane (PM) performs a plethora of physiological processes, the
coordination of which requires spatial and temporal organization into specialized domains of …

Not just the wall: the other ways to turn the yeast CWI pathway on

E Jiménez-Gutiérrez, E Alegría-Carrasco… - International …, 2020 - Springer
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell wall integrity (CWI) pathway took this name when its role
in the cell response to cell wall aggressions was clearly established. The receptors involved …

Pdr18 is involved in yeast response to acetic acid stress counteracting the decrease of plasma membrane ergosterol content and order

CP Godinho, CS Prata, SN Pinto, C Cardoso… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Saccharomyces cerevisiae has the ability to become less sensitive to a broad range of
chemically and functionally unrelated cytotoxic compounds. Among multistress resistance …

The TORC2-Dependent Signaling Network in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

FM Roelants, KL Leskoske, MN Martinez Marshall… - Biomolecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
To grow, eukaryotic cells must expand by inserting glycerolipids, sphingolipids, sterols, and
proteins into their plasma membrane, and maintain the proper levels and bilayer distribution …

Cytosolic pH controls fungal MAPK signaling and pathogenicity

TR Fernandes, M Mariscal, A Serrano, D Segorbe… - Mbio, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) regulate a variety of cellular processes in
eukaryotes. In fungal pathogens, conserved MAPK pathways control key virulence functions …