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. 2020 Jul 14;12(1):10–24. doi: 10.1080/21501203.2020.1785962

Table 1.

Calcium signalling genes in different yeast and fungal species

Organism
Genome Size (Mb)
Number of protein coding genes
Number of Calcium signaling genes
Subfamily
References
Saccharomyces cerevisiae 12.1 5, 596 40 Ca2+ permeable channel (3), Ca2+/cation ATPases (5), Ca2+ exchanger (4), phospholipase C (2), CaM (1), Ca2+/CaM regulated proteins (25) Zelter et al. 2004;
Otero et al. 2010;
Engel et al. 2014
Schizosaccharomyces pombe 13.8 4,940 18 Ca2+ permeable channel (3), CaM (2), Ca2+/cation ATPases (8), Phospholipase (1), Ca2+/CaM regulated proteins (4) Takeda and Yamamoto 1987; Toda et al. 1993; Yoshida et al. 1994; Okorokova-Facanha et al. 2003; Wood et al. 2002; Cortés et al. 2004
Aspergillus fumigatus 29.4 9,926 13 Ca2+ permeable channel (3), Ca2+ exchanger (3), Ca2+/cation ATPases (3), Phospholipase (3), CaM (1)  Birch et al. 1996; Nierman et al. 2005; Dinamarco et al. 2012; de Castro et al. 2014
Beauveria bassiana 33.7 10,366 21 Ca2+ permeable channel (3), Ca2+/cation ATPases (6), Ca2+ exchanger (5), CaM (1), Ca2+/CaMK (2)Ca2+/CaM regulated proteins (4) Xiao et al. 2012; Fan et al. 2012; Li et al. 2015
Candida albicans 14 6,100 11 Ca2+/cation ATPases (1), Ca2+ permeable channel (4), CaMK (1), CaM (1), Ca2+/H+ exchanger (1), Phospholipase (3) Bennett et al. 1998; Andaluz et al. 2001; Jones et al. 2004; Luna-Tapia et al. 2019
Cryptococcus neoformans 19 6,572 40 Ca2+ permeable channel (3), Ca2+/cation ATPases (6), Ca2+ exchanger (3), phospholipase C (2), CaM (1), Ca2+/CaM regulated proteins (21), Ca2+/CaMK (4) Odom et al. 1997; Kmetzsch et al. 2011; Bahn and Jung 2013; Lee et al. 2016
Fusarium oxysporum 59.9 17,735 4 Ca2+ Permeable channel (3), Phospholipase (1) Ma et al. 2010;
Su et al. 2017
Magnaporthe grisea 40.3 11,109 42 Ca2+ Permeable channel (3), Ca2+/cation ATPases (12), Ca2+ exchanger (6), phospholipase C (4), CaM (1), Ca2+/CaM regulated proteins (16) Zelter et al. 2004;
Dean et al. 2005
Neurospora crassa 40 10,082 48 Ca2+ Permeable channel (3), Ca2+/cation ATPases (9), Ca2+ exchanger (8), phospholipase C (4), CaM (1), Ca2+/CaM regulated proteins (23) Galagan et al. 2003; Zelter et al. 2004; Tamuli et al. 2013