Rhodosporidium toruloides ATCC 10788 (haploid, A1 mating type) and ATCC 10657 (haploid, A2 mating type) were derived from the same diploid parent strain Rhodotorula glutinis ATCC 90781 and are important strains for metabolic engineering. Draft genome sequences of both strains are reported here. The current assembly of strain ATCC 10788 comprises 61 scaffolds with a total size of 20.75 Mbp and a...

YM-47522, a novel antibiotic, was isolated from the culture broth of Bacillus sp. YL-03709B. The antibiotic was purified by centrifugal partition chromatography and ODS column chromatography. It exhibited potent in vitro antifungal activity especially against Rhodotorula acuta and Pichia angusta (MIC: 0.05 and 0.75 microgram/ml, respectively). It also showed moderate or weak antifungal activity...

In patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), Candida albicans often leads to chronic colonization (2). Here we report the first known human isolate of a red-pigmented adenine auxotrophic C. albicans strain from a sputum surveillance culture of a 19-year-old man suffering from pulmonary and gastrointestinal CF. The patient received treatment with multiple antibiotics because of chronic colonization wi...

The quantity of extracellular carotenoid pigments in Rhodotorula sp., determined by the absorbance observed at 520 nm, reached a maximum after 4 days, varying between 0,8729 μg/g of dry mass in A2 and 7,5365 μg/g of dry mass in B1.The accumulation of carotenoid pigments in the intra-cellular environment had values between 1,888μg/g of dry mass in B2E and 1.711μg/g of dry

Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, a yeast with valuable biotechnological features, has also been recorded as an emergent opportunistic pathogen that might cause disease in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of R. mucilaginosa strain C2.5t1, which was isolated from cacao seeds in Cameroon.

Resident fruit microflora has been the source of biocontrol agents for the control of postharvest decay of fruits and the active ingredient in commercialized biocontrol products. With the exception of grapes and apples, information on the resident microflora of other fruits is only fragmentary, but greater knowledge in this area can be very helpful in developing biocontrol strategies. We charac...