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Molecular biology of Kluyveromyces lactis

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Molecular Biology and its Application to Medical Mycology

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIH,volume 69))

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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is probably the most thoroughly understood amongst eukaryotic organisms and an excellent model for the study of eukaryotic cells in general; indeed, the term “yeast” is often used as a synonim for this species. Recently, however, other yeasts have attracted the attention of researchers as a result of their distinct biological and metabolic properties which open up new possibilities of biological utilization. Among these so called “non-conventional” yeasts, Kluyveromyces lactis has attracted a special interest because of several peculiar characteristics, including the easiness of mass cultivation, its status of safe organism and its very good secretion properties. K.lactis is a budding yeast and, like S.cerevisiae, lends itself easily to genetic analysis. It differs, however, from S.cerevisiae for several important metabolic properties and is a “petite negative” yeast, i.e. a species in which no mitochondrial respiratory deficient mutants have been found. It has a considerably smaller number of chromosomes than S.cerevisiae, which are however larger in size. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis reveals six DNA bands ranging in size roughly between 1.2 and 2.8 megabasepairs (Sor and Fukuhara, 1989). Several genes are being mapped by hybridization on the chromosomes and results are being compared with linkage maps of known mutations obtained by tetrad analysis.

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  1. Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, P.le A. Moro, 5, 00185, Rome, Italy

    L. Frontali, M. M. Bianchi, L. Fabiani, C. Falcone, C. Mazzoni, A. Ragnini, M. Saliola & C. Wilson

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  2. Division of Infectious Diseases St. Louis, Washington University School of Medicine, Missouri, 63110, USA

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  3. Research Center for Medical Mycology, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 359 Otsuka, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, 192-03, Japan

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Frontali, L. et al. (1993). Molecular biology of Kluyveromyces lactis . 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_9

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