The dimorphic yeast Yarrowia lipolytica is used as a model to study fungal differentiation because it grows as yeast-like cells or forms hyphal cells in response to changes in environmental conditions. Here, we report the isolation and characterization of a gene, ZNC1, involved in the dimorphic transition in Y. lipolytica. The ZNC1 gene encodes a 782 amino acid protein that contains a Zn(II)2C6...

Pay mutants of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica fail to assemble functional peroxisomes. One mutant strain, pay32-1, has abnormally small peroxisomes that are often found in clusters surrounded by membraneous material. The functionally complementing gene PAY32 encodes a protein, Pay32p, of 598 amino acids (66,733 D) that is a member of the tetratricopeptide repeat family. Pay32p is intraperoxisoma...

BACKGROUND The oleaginous yeast, Yarrowia lipolytica, has been utilized as an industrial host for about 60 years for various applications. Recently, the metabolic engineering of this host has become increasingly popular due to its ability to accumulate lipids as well as improvements made toward developing new genetic tools. Y. lipolytica can robustly metabolize glucose, glycerol, and even diffe...

Cytokinins are hormones that are involved in plant growth and development. They are irreversibly degraded by cytokinin oxidases/dehydrogenases, flavoenzymes which contain a covalently bound flavine adenine dinucleotide (FAD) cofactor. Cytokinin oxidase from Zea mays (ZmCKO1) was overexpressed in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica, purified (molecular weight 69 kDa) and crystallized using the hanging...

We have traced the evolution patterns of 2480 transmembrane transporters from five complete genome sequences spanning the entire Hemiascomycete phylum: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida glabrata, Kluyveromyces lactis, Debaryomyces hansenii, and Yarrowia lipolytica. The use of nonambiguous functional and phylogenetic criteria derived from the TCDB classification system has allowed the identifica...

This paper reviews the advantages of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica as a tool in the study of protein secretion. Work has been focused on the early steps leading the polypeptide, from the cytoplasmic ribosomes where it is synthesized, to the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum. Using a thermosensitive allele of the 7SL RNA, the first in vivo evidence for a co-translational translocation was shown...

Twenty-six yeasts from different genera were investigated for their ability to metabolize biogenic amines. About half of the yeast strains produced one or more different biogenic amines, but some strains of Debaryomyces hansenii and Yarrowia lipolytica were also able to degrade such compounds. The most effective strain D. hanseniii H525 metabolized a broad spectrum of biogenic amines by growing...

Growth of Yarrowia lipolvtica W3-180 on a poor C-source in the presence of phenylalanine or tyrosine results in the formation of homogentisic acid. Melanin is formed, if desired, by bringing the medium to pH >10 whereupon the homogentisic acid spontaneously polymerizes. Y. lipolytica YB3-180 was grown in a minimal salts medium contg. 0.5 g glucose/L and tyrosine 5 mM. After 5 days incubation (2...

Acid phosphatase (APase) activity of the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica increased with increasing Cu2+ concentrations in the medium. Furthermore, the enzyme in soluble form was stimulated in vitro by Cu2+, Co2+, Ni2+, Mn2+ and Mg2+ and inhibited by Ag+ and Cd2+. The most effective ion was Cu2+, especially for the enzyme from cultures in medium containing Cu2+, whereas APase activity in wall-bound fr...

The production of extra cellular lipase in Solid State Fermentation (SSF) using Yarrowia lipolytica NCIM 3589 with Palm Kernal cake (Elaeis guineensis) has been studied. Different parameters such as incubation time, inoculum level, initial moisture content, carbon level and nitrogen level of the medium were optimized. Screening of various process variables has been accomplished with the help of...