Constitutive and UV-inducible synthesis of photoprotective compounds (carotenoids and mycosporines) by freshwater yeasts

Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 281-286

  Libkind, Diego ^a   Pérez, Patricia ^a   Sommaruga, Ruben ^b   Diéguez, María Del Carmen ^a   Ferraro, Marcela ^c   Brizzio, Silvia ^a   Zagarese, Horacio ^c   Van Broock, María ^a  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOTECNOLÓGICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; GLUCOSIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LAKE WATER; MYCOSPORINE DERIVATIVE; PROTECTIVE AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS LAURENTII; CYSTOFILOBASIDIUM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENUS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; LAKE; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RHODOSPORIDIUM; RHODOTORULA; RHODOTORULA MINUTA; RHODOTORULA PINICOLA; SPORIDIOBOLUS; SPOROBOLOMYCES; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TORULASPORA; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; YEAST;

CANDIDA; CRYPTOCOCCUS LAURENTII; CYSTOFILOBASIDIUM; PINICOLA; RHODOSPORIDIUM; RHODOTORULA MINUTA; RICKETTSIA SP. PAR; TORULASPORA;

EID: 3042602202     PISSN: 1474905X     EISSN: 14749092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b310608j     Document Type: Article

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