Fungal phoenix rising from the ashes?

Fungal phoenix rising from the ashes?

During May 2010, sporocarps of what appeared to be an Armillaria sp. were found in large clumps in historic Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens on the foot of Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa. These sporocarps could be physically linked to the roots of unidentified dead trees and Protea spp. The aim of this study was to identify the Armillaria sp. found fruiting in Kirstenbosch. To achieve th...

Armt1: a phoenix rises from the ashes

In the mid 1960s scientists discovered an enzyme activity in pituitary extracts that hydrolyzed s-adenosyl methionine (AdoMet) leading to the generation of methanol. Initially, the sole purpose for this enzyme was thought to be cleavage of AdoMet into methanol; but, it was later identified as protein carboxyl methyltransferase or protein methylase II [1]. Similar to the already described protei...

Developmental transcription factors in age-related CNS disease: a phoenix rising from the ashes?

Few would doubt that understanding the developmental landscape from which a mature neuron is derived is essential to understand its biology. The temporal and spatial position of a cell from the very earliest stages of development predicts the unique combinations of growth factors it will subsequently be exposed to. This combination of factors determines the transcriptional platform set within t...

The Left: Ashes to Phoenix

Rising like the phoenix?