Molecular mechanisms and evolutionary consequences of spore killers in ascomycetes

S Zanders, H Johannesson - Microbiology and Molecular Biology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
In this review, we examine the fungal spore killers. These are meiotic drive elements that
cheat during sexual reproduction to increase their transmission into the next generation …

Cephalosporin C biosynthesis and fermentation in Acremonium chrysogenum

L Liu, Z Chen, W Liu, X Ke, X Tian, J Chu - Applied Microbiology and …, 2022 - Springer
Cephalosporins are currently the most widely used antibiotics in clinical practice. The main
strain used for the industrial production cephalosporin C (CPC) is Acremonium …

Translation inhibition by rocaglates activates a species-specific cell death program in the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris

KR Iyer, L Whitesell, JA Porco Jr, T Henkel, LE Brown… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fungal infections are a major contributor to infectious disease-related deaths worldwide.
Recently, global emergence of the fungal pathogen Candida auris has caused considerable …

Programmed Cell Death in Neurospora crassa Is Controlled by the Allorecognition Determinant rcd-1

A Daskalov, P Gladieux, J Heller, NL Glass - Genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Programmed cell death preventing heterokaryon formation in fungi has been proposed to
represent a defense mechanism against conspecific genome exploitation and mycoviruses …

Genomic Comparisons of Two Armillaria Species with Different Ecological Behaviors and Their Associated Soil Microbial Communities

JRI Caballero, BM Lalande, JW Hanna… - Microbial ecology, 2023 - Springer
Armillaria species show considerable variation in ecological roles and virulence, from
mycorrhizae and saprophytes to important root pathogens of trees and horticultural crops …

Microbial interaction mediated programmed cell death in plants

L Prasad, S Katoch, S Shahid - 3 Biotech, 2022 - Springer
Food demand of growing population can only be met by finding solutions for sustaining the
crop yield. The understanding of basic mechanisms employed by microorganisms for the …

Do fungi undergo apoptosis-like programmed cell death?

JM Hardwick - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
This question of whether fungi undergo apoptosis-like programmed cell death can be
separated into two questions. One question is about applying the term" apoptosis" to fungi …

Fighting pathogenic yeasts with plant defensins and anti-fungal proteins from fungi

P Manzanares, M Giner-Llorca, JF Marcos… - Applied microbiology …, 2024 - Springer
Fungal infections represent a significant health risk worldwide. Opportunistic infections
caused by yeasts, particularly by Candida spp. and their virulent emerging isolates, have …

Manipulating the Expression of Small Secreted Protein 1 (Ssp1) Alters Patterns of Development and Metabolism in the White-Rot Fungus Pleurotus ostreatus

D Feldman, N Amedi, S Carmeli… - Applied and …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
The function of small secreted proteins (SSPs) in saprotrophic fungi is, for the most part,
unknown. The white-rot mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus produces considerable amounts of …

[PDF][PDF] The Predicted Mannosyltransferase GT69-2 Antagonizes RFW-1 To Regulate Cell Fusion

Y Li, J Heller, AP Gonçalves - mBio, 12 (2), 2021 - scholar.archive.org
Filamentous fungi undergo somatic cell fusion to create a syncytial, interconnected hyphal
network which confers a fitness benefit during colony establishment. However, barriers to …