Kuraishia is a genus of two species of ascomycetous yeasts in the family Saccharomycetaceae. The type species Kuraishia capsulata was originally described as a member of Hansenula (now Pichia) in 1953.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Saccharomycetes |
| Order: | Saccharomycetales |
| Family: | Saccharomycetaceae |
| Genus: | Kuraishia Y.Yamada, K.Maeda & Mikata (1994) |
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| Kuraishia capsulata (Wick.) Y.Yamada, K.Maeda & Mikata (1994)[1]
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The genus name of Kuraishia is in honour of Hiroshi Kuraishi, Japanese (Micro-)Biologist (Mycology and Lichenology), from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.[2]
K. molischiana was described as new to science in 2004.[3] The complete genome sequence of K. capsulata was reported in 2013.[4] K. capsulata produces extracellular exopolysahharide, phosphomannan, as an external phosphorus reserve.[5]
References
edit- ^ Yamada Y, Maeda K, Mikata K (1994). "The phylogenetic relationships of the hat-shaped ascospore-forming, nitrate-assimilating Pichia species, formerly classified in the genus Hansenula Sydow et Sydow, based on the partial sequences of 18S and 26S ribosomal RNAs (Saccharomycetaceae): the proposals of three new genera, Ogataea, Kuraishia, and Nakazawaea". Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. 58 (7): 1245–1257. doi:10.1271/bbb.58.1245. PMID 7765249.
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ Péter G, Dlauchy P, Tornai-Lehoczki J, Kurtzman CP (2004). "Kuraishia molischiana sp. nov., the teleomorph of Candida molischiana". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 88 (3–4): 241–247. doi:10.1007/s10482-005-7267-3. PMID 16284930. S2CID 23171782.
- ^ Morales L, Noel B, Porcel B, Marcet-Houben M, Hullo MF, Sacerdot C, Tekaia F, Leh-Louis V, Despons L, Khanna V, Aury JM, Barbe V, Couloux A, Labadie K, Pelletier E, Souciet JL, Boekhout T, Gabaldon T, Wincker P, Dujon B (2013). "Complete DNA sequence of Kuraishia capsulata illustrates novel genomic features among budding yeasts (Saccharomycotina)". Genome Biology and Evolution. 5 (12): 2524–2539. doi:10.1093/gbe/evt201. PMC 3879985. PMID 24317973.
- ^ N. E. Ustyuzhanina; E. V. Kulakovskaya; T. V. Kulakovskaya; V. M. Menshov; A. S. Dmitrenok; A. S. Shashkov; N. E. Nifantiev (2018). "Mannan and phosphomannan from Kuraishia capsulata yeast". Carbohydrate Polymers. 181: 624–632. doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.11.103. PMID 29254015.
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