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The Species-Specific Acquisition and Diversification of a K1-like Family of Killer Toxins in Budding Yeasts of the Saccharomycotina.
PLoS genetics - 1 Feb 2021
Fredericks Lance R, Lee Mark D, Crabtree Angela M, Boyer Josephine M, Kizer Emily A, Taggart Nathan T, Roslund Cooper R, Hunter Samuel S, Kennedy Courtney B, Willmore Cody G, Tebbe Nova M, Harris Jade S, Brocke Sarah N, Rowley Paul A
Abstract excerpt
Killer toxins are extracellular antifungal proteins that are produced by a wide variety of fungi, including Saccharomyces yeasts. Although many Saccharomyces killer toxins have been previously identified, their evolutionary origins remain uncertain given that many of these genes have been mobilized by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) viruses. A survey of yeasts from the Saccharomyces genus has identified a novel...
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