UBIQUINONE SYSTEMS OF THE GENUS CLADOSPORIUM AND MORPHOLOGICALLY SIMILAR TAXA

Citation
K. Okada et al., UBIQUINONE SYSTEMS OF THE GENUS CLADOSPORIUM AND MORPHOLOGICALLY SIMILAR TAXA, FEMS immunology and medical microbiology, 16(1), 1996, pp. 39-43
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Immunology,Microbiology
ISSN journal
09288244
Volume
16
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
39 - 43
Database
ISI
SICI code
0928-8244(1996)16:1<39:USOTGC>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
The ubiquinone (coenzyme Q) systems of 14 species of Cladosporium were determined. The genus was divided into two groups based on the distri bution of the major ubiquinones, Q-10 and Q-10(H-2). The group contain ing Q-10 consisted of six species, four of which were human pathogens, whereas the group containing Q-10(H-2) consisted of eight plant patho genic and/or saprophytic species. The results presented here agree wit h phylogenetic and physiological studies which have shown that the hum an-pathogenic species of Cladosporium represent a homogeneous, cohesiv e group.