Results of a survey and study of the Claviceps purpurea group of species in South Africa are being presented and five new species are described. Morphological descriptions are based on the anamorphs and four nuclear genetic loci. Claviceps fimbristylidis sp. nov. on Fimbristylis complanata was discovered wide-spread across five provinces of the country associated with water and represents the fourth Claviceps species recorded from the Cyperaceae. Claviceps monticola sp. nov. is described from Brachypodium flexum growing in mountain forests in Mpumalanga Province, as well as the northern Drakensberg southwards into the Eastern Cape Province. Claviceps pazoutovae sp. nov. is recorded from Stipa dregeana var. dregeana and Ehrharta erecta var. erecta, also associated with these mountain ranges. Claviceps macroura sp. nov. is recorded from Cenchrus macrourus from the Eastern Cape and Claviceps capensis sp. nov. from Ehrharta villosa var. villosa is recorded from the Western Cape Province. Claviceps cyperi, only recorded from South Africa is included in the study. Ergot alkaloid profiles of all species are provided and showed similarity to C. purpurea. Only C. cyperi and in lesser degree C. capensis, C. macroura, and C. pazoutovae produced ergot alkaloids in clinically significant amounts. Several reported species infect invasive grass species, native to South Africa, and thus represent potentially invasive species.

• MeSH
• Claviceps chemie   klasifikace   genetika   izolace a purifikace   MeSH
• DNA fungální chemie   genetika   MeSH
• elongační faktor 1 genetika   MeSH
• fylogeneze MeSH
• lesy MeSH
• MCM komplex, komponenta 7 genetika   MeSH
• mikrobiologie životního prostředí * MeSH
• námelové alkaloidy analýza   MeSH
• ribozomální DNA chemie   genetika   MeSH
• sekvenční analýza DNA MeSH
• shluková analýza MeSH
• tubulin genetika   MeSH
• voda MeSH
• vysokoúčinná kapalinová chromatografie MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Jihoafrická republika MeSH

DNA replication is a highly coordinated process that is initiated at multiple replication origins in eukaryotes. These origins are bound by the origin recognition complex (ORC), which subsequently recruits the Mcm2-7 replicative helicase in a Cdt1/Cdc6-dependent manner. In budding yeast, two essential replication factors, Sld2 and Mcm10, are then important for the activation of replication origins. In humans, the putative Sld2 homolog, RECQ4, interacts with MCM10. Here, we have identified two mutants of human RECQ4 that are deficient in binding to MCM10. We show that these RECQ4 variants are able to complement the lethality of an avian cell RECQ4 deletion mutant, indicating that the essential function of RECQ4 in vertebrates is unlikely to require binding to MCM10. Nevertheless, we show that the RECQ4-MCM10 interaction is important for efficient replication origin firing.

• MeSH
• apoptóza MeSH
• chromatin genetika   MeSH
• helikasy RecQ genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• imunoenzymatické techniky MeSH
• imunoprecipitace MeSH
• interakční proteinové domény a motivy MeSH
• kur domácí genetika   MeSH
• kvantitativní polymerázová řetězová reakce MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• MCM komplex, komponenta 2 genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• MCM komplex, komponenta 7 genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• MCM proteiny genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• messenger RNA genetika   MeSH
• molekulární sekvence - údaje MeSH
• nádorové buňky kultivované MeSH
• nádory kostí genetika   metabolismus   patologie   MeSH
• osteosarkom genetika   metabolismus   patologie   MeSH
• polymerázová řetězová reakce s reverzní transkripcí MeSH
• povrchová plasmonová rezonance MeSH
• proliferace buněk MeSH
• průtoková cytometrie MeSH
• replikace DNA * MeSH
• replikační počátek genetika   MeSH
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae genetika   metabolismus   MeSH
• sekvence aminokyselin MeSH
• sekvenční homologie aminokyselin MeSH
• western blotting MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• zvířata MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH