Table 2.
Yeast/filamentous fungus specie | Killer toxin | Mode of action | Reference |
---|---|---|---|
Kluyveromyces wickerhamii | Kwkt | – | (Comitini and Ciani 2011) |
Pichia anomala | Pikt | – | (Comitini et al. 2004) |
Pichia membranifaciens | PMTK2 | Cell cycle arrest/apoptosis | (Belda et al. 2017) |
Candida pyralidae | CpKT1 | Cell Wall and membrane disruption | (Mehlomakulu et al. 2014) |
Candida pyralidae | CpKT2 | – | (Mehlomakulu et al. 2014) |
Ustilago maydis | KP6 | K+ depletion | (Santos et al. 2011) |
Torulospora delbrueckii | TdKT | Cell wall disruption and apoptotic death processes | (Villalba et al. 2016) |