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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2024

The Prevalence of Killer Yeasts in the Gardens of Fungus-Growing Ants and the Discovery of Novel Killer Toxin named Ksino.

Rodolfo Bizarria, Jack W Creagh, Tanner J Badigian, Renato A Corrêa Dos Santos, Sarah A Coss, Rim T Tekle, Noah Fredstrom, F Marty Ytreberg, Maitreya J Dunham, Andre Rodrigues and 1 more

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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11 authors.

Rodolfo BizarriaDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA.
Jack W CreaghDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA.
Tanner J BadigianDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA.
Renato A Corrêa Dos SantosLaboratory of Computational, Evolutionary, and Systems Biology, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of São Paulo (USP), Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-0826-5479
Sarah A CossDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA.
Rim T TekleDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA.
Noah FredstromDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
F Marty YtrebergDepartment of Physics, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844, USA.
Maitreya J DunhamDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9944-2666
Andre RodriguesDepartment of General and Applied Biology, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Institute of Biosciences, Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil.
Paul A RowleyDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3590-5139

Funding

Women's health: interplay of maternal diet and key demographics on neurological health in the rural frontier and remote WestP20GM103408 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO · PI Scott A Minnich · 2012 to 2026
$59.8M
Sequence-structure-function relationships in human visual photopigmentsP20GM104420 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO · PI MILLER, CRAIG R · 2015 to 2024
$22.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103408NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM104420
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Killer toxins are proteinaceous antifungal molecules produced by yeasts, with activity against a wide range of human and plant pathogenic fungi. Fungus gardens of attine ants in Brazil were surveyed to determine the presence of killer toxin-producing yeasts and to define their antifungal activities and ecological importance. Our results indicate that up to 46% of yeasts isolated from specific fungal gardens can be killer yeasts, with an overall prevalence of 17% across all strains tested. Killer yeasts were less likely to inhibit the growth of yeasts isolated from the same environment but more effective at inhibiting yeast isolated from other environments, supporting a role for killer yeasts in shaping community composition. All killer yeasts harbored genome-encoded killer toxins due to the lack of cytoplasmic toxin-encoding elements (i.e., double-stranded RNA satellites and linear double-stranded DNAs). Of all the killer yeasts identified, an isolate of

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AntifungalsBudding yeastFungus-growing antsKiller toxinsKiller yeasts

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