High impact information on Absidia

• Mycelia of industrially steroid-transforming fungi Rhizopus and Absidia are excellent biosorbents for lead, cadmium, copper, zinc, and uranium, binding also other heavy metals up to 25% of the biomass dry weight [1].
• D-Mannitol dehydrogenase from Absidia glauca. Steady-state kinetic properties and the inhibitory role of mannitol 1-phosphate [2].
• D-Mannitol dehydrogenase from Absidia glauca. Purification, metabolic role, and subunit interactions [3].
• Spores were exposed to amphotericin B and nystatin in RPMI-1640 or AM3 at concentrations of 4 x and 1 x MIC for 4 h for Absidia sp. and at 1 x and 0.5 x MIC for 1 h for the other strains [4].
• Rhizopus spp. were significantly less susceptible to itraconazole, posaconazole, terbinafine and amphotericin B than Absidia spp., and less susceptible than Mucor spp. to amphotericin B [5].

Biological context of Absidia

• Biotransformation XXXIX. Metabolism of testosterone, androstenedione, progesterone and testosterone derivatives in Absidia coerulea culture [6].
• A plasmid (pAmN61) containing the NPT II structural gene (neomycin phosphotransferase) fused to the N-terminal region of a homologous actin gene was used for the transformation of Absidia glauca protoplasts [7].
• A gene of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, coding for the translation elongation factor 1 alpha (EF-1 alpha), was isolated from a P. graminis genomic library using the EF-1 alpha gene sequence of Absidia glauca [8].
• Analysis of the gene for the elongation factor 1 alpha from the zygomycete Absidia glauca. Use of the promoter region for constructions of transformation vectors [9].
• The complete genomic DNA sequence was determined for one of the gene for the elongation factor 1 alpha (TEF), isolated from the zygomycete Absidia glauca [9].

Associations of Absidia with chemical compounds

• The activities of amphotericin B and itraconazole were studied in a temporarily neutropenic murine model of disseminated Absidia corymbifera infection, caused by two different strains [10].
• Treatment of Absidia corymbifera infection in mice with amphotericin B and itraconazole [10].
• The strain of Absidia coerulea was used to investigate the transformations of testosterone, androstenedione, progesterone and testosterone derivatives with additional Cl-C2 double bond and/or 17alpha-methyl group [6].
• A series of new vectors for the model zygomycete Absidia glauca was constructed on the basis of the structural neomycin resistance (Neor) gene controlled by the promoter of the gene for elongation factor 1 (TEF) [11].
• In this paper we compare the sequences of a segment of the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase gene, isolated from eleven different strains belonging to four species of the fungal order Mucorales, Parasitella parasitica, Absidia glauca, Mucor mucedo (Mucoraceae) and Blakeslea trispora (Choanephoraceae) [12].

Gene context of Absidia

• Carboxypeptidase Z is a serine carboxypeptidase secreted by Absidia zychae NRIC 1199 [13].
• 5alpha, 7beta, 9alpha, 10beta, 13alpha-Pentahydroxy-4(20),11(12)-taxadiene derivative 1 was converted to two unprecedented 1(15-->11)abeo-taxanes and a taxane derivative with a C10-C11 double bond by Absidia coerula ATCC 10738a [14].
• We report a case of a 31-year-old man with acute promyelocytic leukemia who developed infection of the sino-oral cavity, due to Absidia corymbifera during a neutropenic phase following induction chemotherapy [15].
• A cDNA encoding the alpha-galactosidase of Absidia corymbifera IFO 8084 was cloned and sequenced [16].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Absidia

• Molecular cloning and sequence analysis of the scpZ gene encoding the serine carboxypeptidase of Absidia zychae [13].

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