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Schizosaccharomyces japonicus : the fission yeast is a fusion of yeast and hyphae
Author(s) -
Niki Hironori
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
yeast
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.923
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1097-0061
pISSN - 0749-503X
DOI - 10.1002/yea.2996
Subject(s) - biology , schizosaccharomyces pombe , yeast , hypha , mitosis , cytokinesis , microbiology and biotechnology , fission , schizosaccharomyces , cell division , botany , genetics , saccharomyces cerevisiae , cell , physics , quantum mechanics , neutron
The clade of Schizosaccharomyces includes 4 species: S. pombe, S. octosporus, S. cryophilus , and S. japonicus . Although all 4 species exhibit unicellular growth with a binary fission mode of cell division, S. japonicus alone is dimorphic yeast, which can transit from unicellular yeast to long filamentous hyphae. Recently it was found that the hyphal cells response to light and then synchronously activate cytokinesis of hyphae. In addition to hyphal growth, S. japonicas has many properties that aren't shared with other fission yeast. Mitosis of S. japonicas is referred to as semi‐open mitosis because dynamics of nuclear membrane is an intermediate mode between open mitosis and closed mitosis. Novel genetic tools and the whole genomic sequencing of S. japonicas now provide us with an opportunity for revealing unique characters of the dimorphic yeast. © 2013 The Author. Yeast Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.