Aureobasidium pullulans

Figure 3.2 Aureobasidium pullulans. Taken by phase-contrast microscopy after 2 weeks on potato dextrose agar. Bar equals 10 pm.

Aureobasidium pullulans has been implicated as an agent of phaeohyphomycosis in humans and other animals. This hyphom-ycete is capable of causing opportunistic infections and has been reported from skin, nail, subcutaneous, and deeper tissues. 

The enantioselective reduction of a-ketoester was carried out using the cell suspension of Aureobasidium pullulans SC 13 849 to produce the corresponding (R)-alcohol in 94% isolated... 

Poly(L-malate) [poly(malic acid) (PMA)], is a water-soluble polyanion produced by slime molds and some yeasts such as Physarum polycephalum or Aureobasidium pullulans, respectively. Its function and metabolism has been studied during the last few years [122-125]. Recently, several PMA-degrad-ing bacteria have been isolated, and a cytoplasmic membrane-bound PMA hydrolase was purified from Comamonas acidovans strain 7789 [126] that... 

Costonis. A. C., and W. A. Sinclair. Susceptibility of healthy and ozone-injured needles of Pinus strobus to invasion by Lophodermium pinastri and Aureobasidium pullulans. Eur. J. For. Path. 2 65-73, 1972. 

Biely et al (59) first reported the presence of acetyl xylan esterases in fungal cellulolytic and hemicellulolytic systems Trichoderma reesei, Asper llus niger, Schizophyllum commune and Aureobasidium pullulans. As compared with plant and animal esterases, these fungal esterases exhibited high specific activities... 

Shigemori, H. Tenma, M. Shimazaki, K. Kobayashi, J. (1998) Three new metabolites from the marine yeast Aureobasidium pullulans. J. Nat. Prod., 61, 696-8. 

B. B. Doonan, R. E. Crang, T. E. Jensen and M. Baxter (1979). In situ X-ray energy dispersive microanalysis of polyphosphate bodies in Aureobasidium pullulans. J. Ultrastructur Res., 69,232-238. 

Bialski AM, Luthe CE, Fong JL, Lewis NG (1986) Sulphite-promoted delignification of wood identification of paucidisperse lignosulphonates Can J Chem 64 1336-1344 Bourbonnais R, Paice MG (1987) Oxidation and reduction of lignin-related aromatic compounds by Aureobasidium pullulans Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 26 164-169 Braithwaite A, Smith FJ (1985) Chromatographic methods Chapman and Hall, New York, 258-266... 

Morphogenesis and adhesion of Aureobasidium pullulans. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 40, 6-17. 

Crang, R. E. Pechak, D. G. (1978). Aureobasidium pullulans fine structure and development. Journal of Coatings Technology, 50, 36-42. 

Schoeman, M. W. Dickinson, D. I. (1996). Aureobasidium pullulans can utilize simple aromatic compounds as a sole source of carbon in liquid culture. Betters in Applied Microbiology, 22, 129-31. 

Webb, J. S., Van der Mei, H. C., Nixon, M. et al. (1999). Plasticizers increase adhesion of the deteriogenic fungus Aureobasidium pullulans to polyvinyl chloride. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 65, 3575-81. 

Gadd, G. M. (1984). Effect of copper on Aureobasidium pullulans in solid medium adaptation not necessary for tolerant behaviour. Transactions of the British Mycological... 

Aureobasidium pullulans, a common dimorphic endophyte of grapevine [305] and saprophyte on plant leaves, occurs in addition as an allergenic fungus [297, 307] and as a rare opportunistic pathogen in humans, where it caused keratitis, pulmonary infection, systemic infections, cutaneous infection, peritonitis, and invasive mycosis in an AIDS patient [80]. Complete 18S as well as partial 26 S rDNA sequences corroborate a relationship of Aureobasidium species with Dothideales (fig. 3) [16, 89, 300]. 

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