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Biology, physiology, biochemistry and molecular genetics of Trichosporon yeasts

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Molecular Biology and its Application to Medical Mycology

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The genus Trichosporon includes yeasts which are characterized by budding cells of various shapes, a more or less developed pseudomycelium or a true mycelium and arthrospores. Trichosporon yeasts may form asexual endospores but sexual reproduction has not been demonstrated so far (Do Carmo-Sousa, 1970). Biochemical characteristics such as hydrolysis of urea, utilization of mono-, di-, tri-, or polysaccharides etc., as well as studies concerning DNA base composition and DNA relatedness led Guého et al. (1984) to propose that Trichosporon yeasts should be classified into two separate groups. The first group, which appears to be related to the Ascomycetes, includes thirteen species with a G+C content lower than 50% (34.7%–48.8%) and lacks urease. The second group appears to be related to the Basidiomycetes and contains fifteen species with a G+C content higher than 50% (57%–64%) including T. cutaneum, T. beigelii and T. pullulans, and has the ability to hydrolyze urea. The basidiomycetous nature of some of the Trichosporon yeasts is demonstrated by the lamellar structure of the cell walls (Kreger-Van Rij and Veenhuis, 1971) and the presence of xylose (Weijman, 1979). Hara et al. (1989) have grouped 44 different strains of T. beigelii and related organisms based on differences in the ubiquinones and assimilation of melibiose and raffinose. The findings suggest that T. beigelii is a heterogeneous group of yeasts consisting of at least four different types of organisms.

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Reiser, J., Glumoff, V., Kälin, M., Ochsner, U., Fiechter, A. (1993). Biology, physiology, biochemistry and molecular genetics of Trichosporon yeasts. In: Maresca, B., Kobayashi, G.S., Yamaguchi, H. (eds) Molecular Biology and its Application to Medical Mycology. NATO ASI Series, vol 69. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84625-0_5

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