Frank Müller

TL;DR: A systematic functional analysis of a glycosyltransferase gene family with members of animal, plant, fungal, and bacterial origin found five novel glucosylceramide synthase genes were identified from the plant Gossypium arboreum, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, and the fungi Magnaporthe grisea, Candida albicans, and P. pastoris.

TL;DR: In vitro enzyme assays with cell-free extracts of the transgenic E. coli strains showed that the genes encode UDP-glucose:sterol glucosyltransferases which can use different sterols such as cholesterol, sitosterol, and ergosterol as sugar acceptors and prove that sterol glucOSide synthesis is an inherent feature of eukaryotic microorganisms.

TL;DR: It is described herein that sterol glucosyltransferase (Ugt51/Paz4) is essential for pexophagy (peroxisome degradation), but not for macroautophagy in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris, suggesting that SG synthesis is required for this process.

TL;DR: The structure of a gene encoding a 70-kDa heat-shock protein from the unicellular alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, is described and a noted similarity of a 5'-upstream sequence motif to the G-box motif conserved in higher plants is found.

TL;DR: In this paper, experimental and modelling work is conducted which aims to improve understanding of the processes involved in the chemical transformation, transport and deposition of atmospheric nitrogen compounds, including the influence of coastal zone processes.