Ramírez Nasto, Lucía
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Ramírez Nasto
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IMAB. Research Institute for Multidisciplinary Applied Biology
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Publication Open Access Genetic breeding of edible mushrooms: from the genome to the production of new varieties of Pleurotus ostreatus(Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa, 2006) Pisabarro de Lucas, Gerardo; Peñas Parrila, María Manuela; Pérez Garrido, María Gumersinda; Park, Sang-Kyu; Eizmendi Goicoechea, Arantza; Parada Albarracín, Julián Andrés; Palma Dovis, Leopoldo; Idareta Olagüe, Eneko; Jurado Cabanillas, Javier; Castellón Gadea, Jordi; Ramírez Nasto, Lucía; Producción Agraria; Nekazaritza EkoizpenaThe breeding of new varieties of industrially cultivated edible mushrooms must proceed in the framework defined by the breeding objectives, the biological characteristics of the material and the legal and cultural constraints imposed to the breeding technology to be used. This last aspect is of the greatest importance in the case of a food that is considered in European countries as high quality and closer to nature than other industrially produced foods. This fact prevents the use of genetic-engineering based technologies for breeding, as the consumers would hardly accept genetically modified mushrooms. Consequently, mushroom breeding should be based on time-consuming processes of classic breeding. Molecular biology, however, can offer to the breeders useful tools for speeding up the selection process, for evaluating the new bred lines and, last but not least, to identify and eventually protect legally the outcome of their breeding programs.Publication Open Access Molecular characterization of A cellobiohydrolase gene family in the fungus Pleurotus ostreatus(Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa, 2006) Eizmendi Goicoechea, Arantza; Sannia, Giovanni; Ramírez Nasto, Lucía; Pisabarro de Lucas, Gerardo; Producción Agraria; Nekazaritza EkoizpenaCellulose is the most abundant biological polymer on Earth. Its chemical composition consists of D-glucose units linked by β-1,4- glycosidic bonds forming linear polymeric chains with a reducing and a non-reducing end. Cellulose chains may either adhere to each other, via hydrophobic and van der Waals interactions, forming crystalline structures or remain more loosely packaged (amorphous cellulose). Consequently, the physical structure and morphology of native cellulose is complex and not uniform. Biological degradation of cellulose depends on the action of three types of enzymes: endoglucanases (E.C.3.2.1.4), cellobiohydrolases (E.C.3.2.1.91) and β-glucosidases (E.C.3.2.1.21). All them hydrolyse β-1,4-glycosidic bonds but they differ on the substrate specificity. Endoglucanases hydrolyse the amorphous regions of the cellulose fibbers generating new reducing and non-reducing ends, cellobiohydrolases attack the molecule ends yielding cellobiose units, and β-glucosidases hydrolyse cellobiose molecules yielding glucose. Cellobiohydrolases can be classified into two groups: type I (CBHI) and type II (CBHII), each having opposite chain-end specificities. CBHI prefer the reducing ends while CBHII act at non-reducing ends. By the screening of a genomic library from the basidiomycete Pleurotus ostreatus var. florida, we have isolated five cbhI genes, named cbhI1, cbhI2, cbhI3, cbhI4 and cbhI5, proving the occurrence of a multigenic family coding for this enzymatic activity. Using this sequences as probe, it has been possible to know the conditions in which are expressed those genes. This has allowed the synthesis of the each gene cDNA and, by comparison of this sequence with the corresponding genomic sequence, the characterization of their structure. On the other hand, using the RFLP technique and a progeny of 80 monokaryons derived from the dikaryon N001, the five genes have been mapped on the linkage map of P. ostreatus var. florida mapping the cbhI1 to the chromosome IV and the others to the chromosome VI.