Adaptation of Extremely Halotolerant Black Yeast Hortaea Werneckii to Increased Osmolarity: a Molecular Perspective at a Glance

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Journal Stud Mycol

Date 2009 Mar 17

PMID 19287528

Citations 44

Authors

A Plemenitas

T Vaupotic

M Lenassi

T Kogej

N Gunde-Cimerman

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Abstract

Halophilic adaptations have been studied almost exclusively on prokaryotic microorganisms. Discovery of the black yeast Hortaea werneckii as the dominant fungal species in hypersaline waters enabled the introduction of a new model organism to study the mechanisms of salt tolerance in eukaryotes. Its strategies of cellular osmotic adaptations on the physiological and molecular level revealed novel, intricate mechanisms to combat fluctuating salinity. H. werneckii is an extremely halotolerant eukaryotic microorganism and thus a promising source of transgenes for osmotolerance improvement of industrially important yeasts, as well as in crops.

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