Kluyveromyces

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Kluyveromyces
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Saccharomycetes
Order: Saccharomycetales
Family: Saccharomycetaceae
Genus: Kluyveromyces
Van der Walt, 1956 [1]
Species

Kluyveromyces is a genus of ascomycetous yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae. [2] Some of the species, such as K. marxianus , are the teleomorphs of Candida species.

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The genus name of Kluyveromyces is in honour of Albert Jan Kluyver ForMemRS (1888-1956), who was a Dutch microbiologist and biochemist. [3]

The genus was circumscribed by Johannes P. Van der Walt in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek vol.22 on pages 268–271 in 1956.

Mating and sporulation in Kluyveromyces are co-induced by poor environments and most often occur in succession without intervening diploid mitotic cell divisions. [4]

A RAD52 gene homolog from Kluyveromyces lactis was cloned and characterized. [5] This gene, which has a central role in recombinational repair of DNA, can complement S. cerevisiae rad52 mutants. [5]

Species

Kluyveromyces is widely cultured for microbiological and genetic research. Some important species include:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Van der Walt, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Ned. Tijdschr. Hyg. 22: 271 (1956)
  2. ↑ "Kluyveromyces Walt, 1956". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
  3. ↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names](pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN   978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID   246307410 . Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  4. ↑ Hanson, SJ; Wolfe, KH (May 2017). "An Evolutionary Perspective on Yeast Mating-Type Switching". Genetics. 206 (1): 9–32. doi:10.1534/genetics.117.202036. PMC   5419495 . PMID   28476860.
  5. 1 2 Milne, GT; Weaver, DT (Sep 1993). "Dominant negative alleles of RAD52 reveal a DNA repair/recombination complex including Rad51 and Rad52". Genes Dev. 7 (9): 1755–65. doi: 10.1101/gad.7.9.1755 .


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