Biology:Mrakia aquatica

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Short description: Species of fungus

Mrakia aquatica
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Tremellomycetes
Order: Cystofilobasidiales
Family: Mrakiaceae
Genus: Mrakia
Species:
M. aquatica
Binomial name
Mrakia aquatica
(E.B.G. Jones & Slooff) Xin Zhan Liu, F.Y. Bai, M. Groenew. & Boekhout (2015)
Synonyms

Candida aquatica
Cryptococcus aquaticus

Mrakia aquatica is a species of fungus in the family Mrakiaceae.[1] It is only known from its yeast state, originally isolated from lake water in England.

Description

The species has an optimal growth temperature of 9 °C, but can grow at temperatures as low as 2 °C. When plated on agar it produces smooth, butyrous colonies that are cream. When grown in liquid media it takes approximately 76 hours to reach stationary phase and is very sensitive to decreases in pH. Cells are typically oval or cylindrical, but can be dumb-bell shaped. Mrakia aquatica reproduces through bipolar mypodial budding. It can weakly ferment D-glucose, D-galactose, maltose and melezitose. This species is DBB+. Mrakia aquatica has been studied because of its ability to produce pecticase. It produces polycalacturonase, but not isoenzymes of polygalacturonase, and it has increased activity in the presence of glucose.[2] The species has an interesting trait in that it produces mycocins, which are proteinaceous toxins that either kill or inhibit the ability of fungi that are in the same taxonomic rank or in a related taxonomic rank. The mycocin that M. aquatica produces is only able to kill species in the Cystofilobasidiales.[3]

References

  1. "Taxonomy browser (Mrakia aquatica)". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=752004. 
  2. Birgisson et al. (2003) Cold-adapted yeasts as producers of cold-active polygalacturonases. Extremophiles. 7:185-193
  3. Pfeiffer et al. (2004) Mycocin production in Cryptococcus aquaticus. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 86:369-375

Wikidata ☰ Q27887118 entry