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Mycocin production in Pseudozyma tsukubaensis

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Killer activity expressed at pH values ranging from 3.5 to 6.0 was found in the ustilaginaceous yeast-like species, Pseudozyma tsukubaensis. Its killer phenotype was incurable, and extrachromosomal genetic elements were not detected. The toxin excreted with a molecular mass above 15 kDa is fungicidal, resistant to proteolytic cleavage, thermolabile and active only against fungi within the Ustilaginomycetes (the orders Microstromatales and Ustilaginales).

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  1. Russia Collection of Microorganisms (VKM), Institute for Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, 142290, Russia

    Wladyslav I. Golubev & Ellen W. Golubeva

  2. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary

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Golubev, W.I., Pfeiffer, I. & Golubeva, E.W. Mycocin production in Pseudozyma tsukubaensis . Mycopathologia 162, 313–316 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-006-0065-2

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