虫生真菌蝉拟青霉的研究

观察了蝉拟青霉的无性世代,在24℃下载片培养结果,分生孢子经8hr萌发,24hr普遍形成菌丝,36hr出现产孢结构和产生次代分生孢子。该菌生长合适温度24—26℃,分生孢子萌芽要求相对湿度在90%以上。pH4—12范围均见生长,但以5—6为佳。对10种碳源和9种无机氮源利用检测结果,用葡萄糖作碳源孢子产量高,用果糖作碳源菌丝体产量高。不利用菊糖、L-山梨糖、L-鼠李糖。对KNO_3利用佳,但不能利用NaNO_2,和硫脲。该菌能较强抗紫外辐射。     

Reflections on the genus Vanakripa, and a description of V. ellipsoidea sp. nov

The genus Vanakripa (hyphomycetes) is reviewed based on the examination of type specimens, and V. ellipsoidea sp. nov. is described on submerged wood from Hong Kong. Vanakripa is characterized by punctiform sporodochial colonies, micronematous conidiogenous cells and pigmented conidia with vermiform separating cells. Vanakripa is compared with similar genera, and a synopsis of its morphological characters is provided.     

Characterization study of the sporulation kinetics of Bacillus thuringiensis

A wild-type and an rDNA strain of Bacillus thuringiensis were cultured in a net-draft-tube modified 20-L airlift bioreactor. A comparison of the sporulation patterns suggests that the early sporulation strain has a lower final spore count. Results from off-gas analysis suggests that the CO(2) profile could be an alternative indication to spore counts for the examination of fermentation performance or even the mortality in bioassay of the cultivation product. The difference in mortality tests exhibited by the microorganism was attributed to different patterns of sporulation as well as different levels of gene control inside the cell itself. The sporulation kinetics of B. thuringiensis was simulated by a simple modified Hill equation, where the initial glucose concentration could affect the timing of the onset of sporulation. The equation matches well with the experimental sporulation data for B. thuringiensis in both wild-type and rDNA strains.     

Fungal Olecranon Bursitis in an Immunocompetent Patient by <Emphasis Type="Italic">Knoxdaviesia dimorphospora</Emphasis> sp. nov.: Case Report and Review

Bursitis is a common medical condition that can occur either with or without infection. We present a case of fungal olecranon bursitis in an immunocompetent individual caused by the new species Knoxdaviesia dimorphospora. It is a dematiaceous filamentous fungus characterized by the production of two different conidia: hyaline and cylindrical, which rise up from phialidic conidiogenous cells located in the upper part of differentiated and unbranched conidiophores, and pale brown and ellipsoidal conidia produced by phialidic conidiogenous cells which are born directly on hyphae. In addition to its morphological peculiarities, the novelty of the fungus was confirmed by sequence analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions and D1/D2 domains of the 28S of the nuclear rRNA gene. The fungal infection was confirmed by cytological examination and repeated cultures. The infection was resolved by surgical debridement and drainage, and the patient presented a complete functional recovery 3 months later. The in vitro antifungal susceptibility to this new human opportunist is provided, terbinafine being the drug with the most potent activity.     

An Effective Method of Preparing Sections of Bacillus polymyxa Sporangia and Spores for Electron Microscopy

Bacillus polymyxa sporangia and spores were prepared for examination in the electron microscope by methods whose critical features were apparently: judicious use of vacuum, to encourage complete penetration of the embedding medium; the use of epoxy resins as embedding media; and cutting of the thin sections with a diamond knife. Electron micrographs of material prepared in this manner exhibit undeformed sporangial sections. Some of the structures revealed have been shown before, though perhaps less distinctly; other structures are revealed here for the first time. While this single study does not pretend to elucidate all the complexities of sporulation in bacteria, these and similar images should make this possible, and some mention of the preparatory techniques that lead to them seems advisable at this time.     

蛹虫草(Cordycepsmilitaris)无性型的多型现象

在萨氏琼脂和PDA上,蛹虫草Cordycepsmilitaris（Vuill）Fr.无性型,蛹草拟青霉Paecilomycesmilitaris(Kob）Br.＆Sm．的一些单孢子株可自发产生突变,基于多型现象及其它形态特征可分三种类型：（1）具野生型菌株特征;产孢结构拟青霉型（Paecilomyces－type）,稳定,菌落通常不自发产生角变,大多数单孢子株属此类群。（2）属此类群的单孢子株,在PDA上可形成亮褐色至橙黄色的角变,它们典型的产孢结构为瓶梗轮生,分生孢子常聚集成头状的轮枝孢型（Verticillium－type）。在查氏培养基上则相反,拟青霉型的产孢结构占优势。单孢子株Cm-71是这一类群的代表。（3）单孢子株Cm－42是在所观察单孢子株中形态特征独特的菌株。在PDA上菌丝生长纤细,蛛网状,产孢结构轮枝孢型。蛹草拟青霉对氯酸钾（KClO3）不敏感,在浓度为6％（W／V）的KMM培养基上,23～24℃14天菌落的直径仅1～2cm,无气生菌丝生长。各单孢子株形成的不利用硝酸盐突变株（nit突变株）的途径和形态特征,也可分成类似于粉被虫草CordycepspruinosaPeteh不利用硝酸盐突变株（nit突变株）的三种类型。     

Flo11p adhesin required for meiotic differentiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae minicolonies grown on plastic surfaces

Saccharomyces cerevisiae grown on plastic surfaces formed organized structures, termed minicolonies, that consisted of a core of round (yeast-like) cells surrounded by chains of filamentous cells (pseudohyphae). Minicolonies had a much higher affinity for plastic than unstructured yeast communities growing on the same surface. Pseudohyphae at the surface of these colonies developed further into chains of asci. These structures suggest that pseudohyphal differentiation and sporulation are sequential processes in minicolonies. Consistent with this idea, minicolonies grown under conditions that stimulated pseudohyphal differentiation contained higher frequencies of asci. Furthermore, a flo11Δ mutant, which fails to form pseudohyphae, yielded normal sporulation in cultures, but was defective for minicolony sporulation. When minicolonies were dispersed in water and cells were then allowed to settle on the plastic surface, these cells sporulated very efficiently. Taken together, our results suggest that sporulation in minicolonies is stimulated by pseudohyphal differentiation because these pseudohyphae are dispersed from the core of the colony.     

蛹虫草(Cordyceps militaris)无性型的多型现象*

在萨氏琼脂和PDA上,蛹虫草Cordycepsmilitaris（Vuill）Fr.无性型,蛹草拟青霉Paecilomycesmilitaris(Kob）Br.＆Sm．的一些单孢子株可自发产生突变,基于多型现象及其它形态特征可分三种类型：（1）具野生型菌株特征;产孢结构拟青霉型（Paecilomyces－type）,稳定,菌落通常不自发产生角变,大多数单孢子株属此类群。（2）属此类群的单孢子株,在PDA上可形成亮褐色至橙黄色的角变,它们典型的产孢结构为瓶梗轮生,分生孢子常聚集成头状的轮枝孢型（Verticillium－type）。在查氏培养基上则相反,拟青霉型的产孢结构占优势。单孢子株Cm-71是这一类群的代表。（3）单孢子株Cm－42是在所观察单孢子株中形态特征独特的菌株。在PDA上菌丝生长纤细,蛛网状,产孢结构轮枝孢型。蛹草拟青霉对氯酸钾（KClO3）不敏感,在浓度为6％（W／V）的KMM培养基上,23～24℃14天菌落的直径仅1～2cm,无气生菌丝生长。各单孢子株形成的不利用硝酸盐突变株（nit突变株）的途径和形态特征,也可分成类似于粉被虫草CordycepspruinosaPeteh不利用硝酸盐突变株（nit突变株）的三种类型。     

蜻蜒拟青霉多型性的扫描电镜观察及RAPD分析

通过电镜扫描观察,清楚地显示了靖蜒拟青霉（Ｐａｅｃｉｌｏｍｙｃｅｓ　ｏｄｏｎａｔａｅ　Ｌｉｕ,Ｌｉａｎｇ＆Ｌｉｕ）的两种类型产孢结构,即拟青霉型椭圆形分生抱子的链状排列和校顶孢霉型柱状分生抱子头状排列。同时将椭圆形分生孢子和柱状分生孢子进行单孢分离,对各单孢株作了培养特征观察,形态学观察和ＤＮＡ随机片段扩增分析。结果表明,在形态学上两种孢子单孢子株之间的培养特征和显微特征均无明显差异,同时具有相同的ＤＮＡ随机扩增片段电泳谱。     

A revision of the genus Lomaantha, with the description of a new species

Lomaantha phragmitis sp. nov. is described and illustrated from a specimen collected on dead culms of Phragmites communis in southern China. The fungus differs from other described Lomaantha species in its conidiophores, conidiogenous cells and conidial appendages. Conidial morphology and presence or absence of percurrent proliferation of conidiogenous cells are the main characters distinguishing species within this genus. We provided a key and synoptic table of morphological characters of all three Lomaantha species.     

The fine structure of conidial development in the genus Torula. I. T. herbarum (Pers.) Link ex S. F. Gray and T. herbarum f. quaternella Sacc.

Conidiogenesis in Torula herbarum and T. herbarum f. quaternella was observed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. Conidia of the former were shown to be made up of three equally sized cells capped by a distinctive, and easily recognizable, conidiogenous cell. Conidiogenous cells also arose terminally on erect hyphae and on prostrate hyphae. The single-layered conidial cell walls were differentiated into an inner hyaline zone and an outer electron-dense zone formed by the deposition of melanin. Conidiogenous cells lacked melanin at the apex and, before conidiation, the lateral walls were strengthened by a further deposition of melanin. The apex bulged outwards and was modified into a new multicelled conidium bearing another apical conidiogenous cell. Continued development of new conidia resulted in an acropetal chain which became disarticulated after cytolysis within the conidiogenous cell. The relative distinctions between holoblastic and enteroblastic development are discussed and it is concluded that the conidia should be referred to as blastoconidia.     

The Arf-GTPase-activating protein Gcs1p is essential for sporulation and regulates the phospholipase D Spo14p

SPO14, encoding the major Saccharomyces cerevisiae phospholipase D (PLD), is essential for sporulation and mediates synthesis of the new membrane that encompasses the haploid nuclei that arise through meiotic divisions. PLD catalyzes the hydrolysis of phosphatidylcholine to phosphatidic acid (PA) and choline. PA stimulates Arf-GTPase-activating proteins (Arf-GAPs), which are involved in membrane trafficking events and actin cytoskeletal function. To determine if Spo14p-generated PA mediates its biological response through Arf-GAPs, we analyzed the sporulation efficiencies of cells deleted for each of the five known and potential yeast Arf-GAPs. Only gcs1delta mutants display a sporulation defect similar to that of spo14 mutants: cells deleted for GCS1 initiate the sporulation program but are defective in synthesis of the prospore membrane. Endosome-to-vacuole transport is also impaired in gcs1delta cells during sporulation. Furthermore, Arf-GAP catalytic activity, but not the pleckstrin homology domain, is required for both prospore membrane formation and endosome-to-vacuole trafficking. An examination of Gcs1p-green fluorescent protein revealed that it is a soluble protein. Interestingly, cells deleted for GCS1 have reduced levels of Spo14p-generated PA. Taken together, these results indicate that GCS1 is essential for sporulation and suggest that GCS1 positively regulates SPO14.     

Saccharomyces cerevisiae forms actin ring structures in sporulation, similarly to Zygosaccharomyces rouxii

Yeast filamentous actin (F-actin) exists mainly as patches and cables. Previously, we investigated the behavior of F-actin during sporulation of Zygosaccharomyces rouxii and found a novel actin ring localized around the spore periphery in zygotic asci at a late stage of sporulation. To clarify whether the actin rings are also formed in sporulation in the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we observed the distribution of F-actin in sporulating S. cerevisiae by rhodamine-phalloidin staining and confocal laser scanning microscopy. Ringlike actin structures were detected at the peripheral regions of S. cerevisiae spores in globose asci. When asci of S. cerevisiae were induced to become zygotic, actin rings were more obvious than those in globose asci. These results indicate that S. cerevisiae forms characteristic actin ring structures at a late stage of sporulation, similarly to Z. rouxii.     

Minteriella cenotigena anam. gen. & sp. nov. from submerged plant material in Mexico

Minteriella cenotigena gen. & sp. nov., found on decaying bark submerged in a sinkhole from the southern of Mexico, is described and illustrated. The new taxa is distinguished by synnematous conidiomata, with polyblastic, discrete, indeterminate, sympodially proliferating conidiogenous cells, with flat conidiogenous loci and cylindrical, 3- to 4- (to 5) euseptate, hyaline conidia.     

The fine structure of frozen-etched bacillus cereus spores

Summary The fine structure of Bacillus cereus spores was studied using the freeze-etching technique and compared with that already described in chemically fixed cells. Although the basic structures did not appear different, the freeze-etching technique permitted the examination of membrane surfaces and their involvement in sporulation. In this respect, some membranes were found to be covered with small 120 Å particles believed to represent multi-enzyme complexes, while other membranes appeared relatively smooth.One feature revealed by the freeze-etching technique and not demonstrated in chemically fixed cells, was the presence of relatively large (500 Å) vesicular structures. In many instances these vesicles were closely associated with different layers or membranes in the developing spore. While the role of these vesicular structures is as yet undetermined, their possible connection with the lytic process which liberates the spore from the sporangium, is discussed.     

Gliomastix macrocylindrica,a mycoparasite of Beltrania rhombica

ABSTRACT

Gliomastix macrocylindrica Matsush. is a destructive parasite of Beltrania rhombica Penz. A light and electron microscopic observation on natural substratum revealed that G. macrocylindrica is an invasive specialised necrotroph. It grows inside the host conidiophores and conidiogenous cells. Colonisation of vegetative hyphae and specialised penetration structures, like pseudoappressoria and appressoria, were not observed.     

Growth and sporulation of auxotrophs of Bacillus subtilis in a medium with limited nutrients.

Growth and sporulation were examined for 30 auxotrophs of Bacillus subtilis in a chemically defined medium with suboptimal amounts of nutrients. All strains except for some adenine-requiring mutants could not overtake sporulation stage II when amino acids, vitamins, or bases were limited, whereas they sporulated fairly well without limitation. Abnormal structures, a cell with thickened cell wall and a cell with several refractile bodies, were found in some strains after the vegetative growth stopped.     

哈氏木霉分生孢子发育的超微结构和细胞化学

通过电子显微镜和细胞化学标记研究了哈氏木霉分生孢子发育的超微结构和细胞化学。分生孢子发育的超微结构研究表明,分生孢子壁的发育是有个由薄而光滑到厚而有疣的过程;期间脂肪体在分生孢子和产孢细胞中不断累积,最后脂肪体沿着内壁排列成一层。免疫金标记结果显示,幼嫩的分生孢子壁中缺乏几丁质和纤维素,只有在成熟的分生孢子壁中含有几丁质;出乎意料的是在成熟分生孢子中发现有少量纤维素的存在。     

Hyphomycetes from Nigerian rain forests

Phaeobotrys gen. nov., based on Phaeodactylium acutisporum, characterized by branched and pigmented conidiophores, and the production of hyaline, appendiculate conidia from denticles on polyblastic conidiogenous cells which usually extend sympodially to form more conidiogenous loci, and Zanclospora stellata sp. nov., recognized by its stellate sterile branches in the distal part of the conidiophore and bacilliform conidia, are described and illustrated from decaying leaf litter from Nigeria. Keys to Phaeobotrys and related genera, and to species of Zanclospora are proposed. Furthermore, a list of hyphomycetes newly reported for Nigeria is provided.     

Endosporoideus gen. nov., a mitosporic fungus on Phoenix hanceana

Endosporoideus pedicellata gen. et sp, nov. is described and illustrated from decaying petioles of Phoenix hanceana collected from grassland in Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong. The genus is unique in producing solitary, phragmosporous conidia. The conidia comprise a brown to dark brown inner-wall layer and thick, hyaline outer-wall layer and are produced holoblastically from determinate conidiogenous cells on micronematous, mononematous conidiophores. Cells of conidia may disarticulate at the septa. Representative steps in conidiogenesis of E. pedicellata are illustrated with light micrographs, and details of the conidiogenous events are interpreted schematically.