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C C Emeis

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Genetic diversity of the yeast Candida utilis.

The electrophoretic karyotypes and some mtDNA restriction fragment patterns of 13 strains of Candida utilis and one strain of Hansenula jadinii were compared. PFGE separations revealed remarkable chromosome length polymorphisms between two groups of strains suggesting that perhaps they do not belong to the same species. However, all strains had the same or similar EcoRI, HindIII and BamHI mtDNA restriction patterns. The mtDNA genomes had an average size range of 55 kb. These results support the supposition that C. utilis is a yeast with a highly variable electrophoretic karyotype as already known for another imperfect yeast species, Candida albicans.

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Characterization of yeasts with high L[+]-lactic acid production: lactic acid specific soft-agar overlay (LASSO) and TAFE-patterns.

Only few yeast strains are known for the high level production of L[+]-lactate. We report indications for the conspecifity of Kluyveromyces thermotolerans (formerly Saccharomyces veronae) strain CBS 4728 with Stamm 42 (formerly Saccharomyces pretoriensis, RADLER 1984). We suggest that Stamm 42 has little, if any relationship to Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Furthermore, we have optimized the method of Subden et al. (1982) for the detection of lactate producing microorganisms. Using this method in a screening with 100 yeast strains of our institute collection, we could not find additional strains with high L[+]-lactate production. This method may provide a useful tool for the molecular cloning of the unique yeast L[+]-LDH1) gene (s).

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Molecular probes for the detection of Kluyveromyces marxianus chromosomal DNA in electrophoretic karyotypes of intergeneric protoplast fusion products.

Random genomic DNA fragments from Kluyveromyces marxianus were cloned in order to identify chromosomal bands in pulsed field electrophoresis patterns of intergneric hybrid strains which were obtained by protoplast fusion. Molecular hybridization data indicated that the K. marxianus parental strain might be triploid, and it showed strong chromosome length polymorphism. We analyzed the karyotype of two Saccharomyces cerevisiae/K. marxianus hybrid strains (St. 1.St.46) with our DNA probes and with a Ty1 specific probe. We found indications for recombinational events which lead to the formation of hybrid chromosomal DNA molecules.

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OFAGE banding patterns of different yeast genera and of intergeneric hybrids.

Electrophoretic karyotypes of yeasts belonging to the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Kluyveromyces marxianus and Candida macedoniensis were established by means of OFAGE. Hybrids between S. cerevisiae and K. marxianus as well as between K. marxianus and C. macedoniensis were analyzed by comparing their OFAGE-banding-pattern with the parental banding-patterns. Thus, evidence for exchanges of intact chromosomes and for chromosomal rearrangements could be gained on a molecular level.

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