SPORE Advances

SPORE Scientific Advances

Advances in Glomeromycota taxonomy and classification

Concomitant morphological and molecular analyses have led to major breakthroughs in the taxonomic organization of the phylum Glomeromycota. Fungi in this phylum are known to form arbuscular mycorrhiza, and so far three classes, five orders, 14 families and 29 genera have been described. Sensulato, spore formation in 10 of the arbuscular mycorrhiza-forming genera is exclusively glomoid, one is g...

Recent advances in cyclonucleosides: C-cyclonucleosides and spore photoproducts in damaged DNA.

Cyclonucleosides which are fixed in a specific conformation around the glycosyl bond by a carbon and heteroatom chain constitute a unique category of nucleoside derivatives. Because they are structural analogs, cyclonucleosides and oligodeoxynucleotides containing them would be useful tools for investigating the biological functions and conformations of DNA, RNA as well as their steric interact...

The exosporium of B. cereus contains a binding site for gC1qR/p33: implication in spore attachment and/or entry.

B. cereus, is a member of a genus of aerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming rod-like bacilli, which includes the deadly, B. anthracis. Preliminary experiments have shown that gC1qR binds to B. cereus spores that have been attached to microtiter plates. The present studies were therefore undertaken, to examine if cell surface gC1qR plays a role in B. cereus spore attachment and/or entry. Monolaye...

Genomic-Based Identification of the Sporulation Restoring Gene in Degenerate Clostridium Acetobutylicum Strains

There is a renewed interest in the study of Clostridium acetobutylicum due to its applicability in renewable and “greener” production methods for alternative fuels and industrial solvents. Furthermore, due to significant advances in genetic technologies, C. acetobutylicum has ostensibly become a model clostridia for studying other solventogenic and pathogenic clostridia. Of considerable interes...