cGMP, DNA Polymerase Activity, DNA Polymerase A, DNA Polymerase I, Baker’s Yeast DNA polymerase activity from extracts of growing yeast cells is inhibited by cGMP. Experiments with partially purified yeast DNA polymerases show, that cGMP inhibits DNA polymerase A (DNA polymerase I from Chang), which is the main component of the soluble DNA polymerase activity in yeast extracts, by competing for...

In this study, antifungal property of olive leaf extracts against Candida albicans PTCC-5027 was examined. Fresh olive leaf extracts were prepared using distilled water in a Soxhlet apparatus. The antifungal activity of the extract was analyzed by measuring the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum fungicidal concentration (MFC), using the microdilution test and disc diffusion assa...

Background: The results of the chemical detection showed that active groups in fruit extracts tannin plant contained glycosides, saponins, flavonoids, tannins, terpene and phenols.
 Aim: To evaluate Tannins inhibition activity against Candida albicans. 
 Materials methods: A number aqueous, alcoholic acetone were prepared, their effect on albicans was tested. Four concentrations used ...

Extracts of the cytoplasm of disrupted spheroplasts of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (bakers' yeast) stimulated DNA synthesis in a cell-free system consisting of nuclei from spleen cells of the frog Xenopus laevis. The stimulation required Mg++, ATP, and the deoxynucleoside triphosphates, was saturated by an excess of nuclei or extract, and had kinetics resembling those obtained previously with extr...

Wine lees are an under-exploited sludge-like material mainly consisting of yeast cells that, upon fermentation, settle at the bottom wine tanks. Lees from commercial red and white winemaking were processed to yield mannoprotein-rich extracts. An established autoclave-based extraction protocol, as well a simplified version it, applied. The composition obtained extracts was determined. Extracts t...

The present investigation is primarily concerned with the isolation of p-aminobenzoic acid from yeast. The presence of this substance in yeast was adumbrated by Woods (1) who made the important discovery that. this aromatic amino acid possesses the unique propcity of antagonizing the bsctcriostat~ic action of sulfanilamidt? and that the component. of yeast extracts which exerts a similar antisu...

BACKGROUND Alkaloids present in plants of the Amaryllidaceae family are secondary metabolites of high biological interest, possessing a wide range of pharmacological activities. In the search for new plant-derived compounds with antimicrobial activities, two alkaloid extracts obtained from bulbs and leaves of Pancratium illyricum L., a plant of the Amarillydaceae family, were tested for their e...

Mammalian Pol ι has an unusual combination of properties: it is stimulated by Mn(2+) ions, can bypass some DNA lesions and misincorporates "G" opposite template "T" more frequently than incorporates the correct "A." We recently proposed a method of detection of Pol ι activity in animal cell extracts, based on primer extension opposite the template T with a high concentration of only two nucleot...

In the last few decades, fungal infections, particularly nosocomial, increased all around the world. This increment stimulated the search for new antifungal agents, especially those derived from nature. Among natural products, those from marine sources have gained prominence in the last years. Purified phlorotannins extracts from three brown seaweeds (Cystoseira nodicaulis (Withering) M. Robert...