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. 2017 Nov 30;102(2):569–576. doi: 10.1007/s00253-017-8666-x

Table 2.

Killer toxins secreted by non-Saccharomyces yeast against B. bruxellensis that have potential application in wine industry

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)