Laboratory of Genetics - Publikacijos

Celitan, E., Stanevičienė, R., Servienė, E., Serva, S. 2024. Highly stable Saccharomyces cerevisiae L-BC capsids with versatile packing potential. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 12: art. no. 1456453. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2024.1456453

Gruškienė, R., Galinskaitė, A., Kavleiskaja, T., Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, I., Servienė, E., Sereikaitė, J. 2024. Application of fucoidan for the encapsulation of yeast K2 toxin. Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications, 7: art. no. 100521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carpta.2024.100521

Baranauskaitė, A., Prakas, P., Butkauskas, D., Servienė, E., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Ž. 2024. Diversity of Sarcocystis parasites in southeastern Baltic Sea catchment ecosystem. Parasitology Research, 123 (5): art. no. 214. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-024-08234-w

Vasiliauskienė, D., Pranskevičius, M., Dauknys, R., Urbonavičius, J., Lukša, J., Burko, V., Zagorskis, A. 2024. Changes in microbiota composition during the anaerobic digestion of macroalgae in a three-stage bioreactor. Microorganisms, 12 (1): art. no. 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12010109

Gruškienė, R., Galinskaitė, A., Kavleiskaja, T., Stanevičienė, R., Servienė, E., Sereikaitė, J. 2024. Fucoidan as a carrier of antimicrobial peptide: Preparation and characterization of nisin-loaded particles. LWT-Food Science and Technology, 191: art. no. 115598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lwt.2023.115598

Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, I., Ravoitytė, B., Būdienė, J., Valys, A., Lukša, J., Servienė, E. 2023. Essential oils of Mentha arvensis and Cinnamomum cassia exhibit distinct antibacterial activity at different temperatures in vitro and on chicken skin. Foods, 12 (21): art. no. 3938. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods12213938

Macedo, D.H., Grybchuk, D., Reznarova, J., Votypka, J., Klocek, D., Yurchenko, T., Ševčik, J., Magri, A., Dolinska, M.U., Zahonova, K., Lukes, J., Servienė, E., Jaszayova, A., Serva, S., Malysheva, M.N., Frolov, A.O., Yurchenko, V., Kostygov, A.Y. 2023. Diversity of RNA viruses in the cosmopolitan monoxenous trypanosomatid Leptomonas pyrrhocoris. BMC Biology, 21 (1): art. no. 191. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-023-01687-y

Servienė, E., Serva, S. 2023. Recent advances in the yeast killer systems research. Microorganisms, 11 (5): art. no. 1191. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11051191

Baranauskaitė, A., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Ž., Servienė, E., Butkauskas, D., Prakas, P. 2023. Molecular identification of protozoan Sarcocystis in different types of water bodies in Lithuania. Life, 13 (1): art. no. 51. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13010051

Skrodenytė-Arbačiauskienė, V., Virbickas, T., Lukša, J., Servienė, E., Blažytė-Čereškienė, L., Kesminas, V. 2022. Gut microbiome of wild Baltic salmon (Salmo salar L.) parr. Microbial Ecology, 84 (4): 1294–1298. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01910-9

Lukša, J., Celitan, E., Servienė, E., Serva, S. 2022. Association of ScV-LA virus with host protein metabolism determined by proteomics analysis and cognate RNA sequencing. Viruses, 14 (11): art. no. 2345. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14112345

Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Z., Baranauskaitė, A., Butkauskas, D., Servienė, E., Prakas, P. 2022. Molecular identification of parasitic protozoa Sarcocystis in water samples. Veterinary Sciences, 9 (8): art. no. 412. https://doi.org/10.3390/vetsci9080412

Saura, A., Zakharova, A., Klocek, D., Gerasimov, E.S., Butenko, A., Macedo, D.H., Servienė, E., Zagirova, D., Meshcheryakova, A., Rogozin, I.B., Serva, S., Yu, A., Yurchenko, V. 2022. Elimination of LRVs elicits different responses in Leishmania spp. mSphere, 7 (4): art. no. 335. https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00335-22

Mozūraitis, R., Apšegaitė, V., Radžiutė, S., Aleknavičius, D., Budienė, J., Stanevičienė, R., Blažytė-Čereškienė, L., Servienė, E., Būda, V. (2022) Volatiles produced by yeasts related to Prunus avium and P. cerasus fruits and their potentials to modulate the behaviour of the pest Rhagoletis cerasi fruit flies. Journal of Fungi, 8 (2); art. no. 95. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8020095

Ravoitytė, B., Lukša, J., Wellinger, R.E., Serva, S., Servienė, E. (2022) Adaptive response of Saccharomyces hosts to totiviridae L-A dsRNA viruses is achieved through intrinsically balanced action of targeted transcription factors. Journal of fungi, 8 (4): art. no. 381. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof8040381

Aleknavičius, D., Lukša, J., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Z., Servienė, E. (2022) The bacterial microbiota of edible insects Acheta domesticus and Gryllus assimilis revealed by high content analysis. Foods, 11 (8): art. no. 1073. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11081073

Novickij, V., Stanevičienė, R., Gruskienė, R., Badokas, K., Lukša, J., Sereikaitė, J., Mažeika, K., Višniakov, N., Novickij, J., Servienė, E. (2021) Inactivation of bacteria using bioactive nanoparticles and alternating magnetic fields. Nanomaterials, 11 (2): art. no. 342. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano11020342

Aitmanaitė, L., Konovalovas, A., Medvedevas, P., Servienė, E., Serva, S. (2021) Specificity determination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae killer virus systems. Microorganisms, 9 (2): art. no. 236. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9020236

Mažeika, K., Šiliauskas, L., Skridlaitė, G., Matelis, A., Garjonytė, R., Paškevičius, A., Melvydas, V. (2021) Features of iron accumulation at high concentration in pulcherrimin-producing Metschnikowia yeast biomass. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 26 (2-3): 299–311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00775-021-01853-z

Gruskiene, R., Kavleiskaja, T., Stanevičienė, R., Kikionis, S., Ioannou, E., Servienė, E., Roussis, V., Sereikaitė, J. (2021) Nisin-loaded ulvan particles: Preparation and characterization. Foods, 10 (5): art. no. 1007. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods10051007

Stanevičienė, R., Lukša, J., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Z., Ravoitytė, B., Losinska-Sičiūnienė, R., Mozūraitis, R., Servienė, E. (2021) Mycobiota in the carposphere of sour and sweet cherries and antagonistic features of potential biocontrol yeasts. Microorganisms, 9 (7): art. no. 1423. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9071423

Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, I., Lukša, J., Servienė, E. (2021) Interaction of host factors in response to yeast K2 toxin stress – attractiveness for plant protection. Zemdirbyste-Agriculture, 108 (4): 313–320. https://doi.org/10.13080/z-a.2021.108.040

Zdaniauskiene, A., Charkova, T., Ignatjev, I., Melvydas, V., Garjonytė, R., Matulaitienė, I., Talaikis, M., Niaura, G. (2020) Shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced Raman spectroscopy for characterization of living yeast cells. Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 240: art. no. 118560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2020.118560

Mozūraitis, R., Aleknavičius, D., Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, I., Stanevičienė, R., Emami, S.N., Apšegaitė, V., Radžiutė, S., Blažytė-Čereškienė, L., Servienė, E., Būda, V. (2020) Hippophae rhamnoides berry related Pichia kudriavzevii yeast volatiles modify behaviour of Rhagoletis batava flies. Journal of Advanced Research, 21: 71–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jare.2019.08.001

Novickij, V., Stanevičienė, R., Staigvila, G., Gruskienė, R., Sereikaitė, J., Girkontaitė, I., Novickij, J., Servienė, E. (2020) Effects of pulsed electric fields and mild thermal treatment on antimicrobial efficacy of nisin-loaded pectin nanoparticles for food preservation. LWT-Food Science and Technology, 120: art. no. 108915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lwt.2019.108915

Rudaitytė-Lukošienė, E., Prakas, P., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Z., Servienė, E., Januškevičius, V., Butkauskas, D. (2020) Molecular identification of two Sarcocystis species in fallow deer (Dama dama) from Lithuania. Parasitology International, 75: art. no. 102044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2019.102044

Lukša, J., Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, I., Apšegaitė, V., Blažytė-Čereškienė, L., Stanevičienė, R., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Ž., Ravoitytė, B., Aleknavičius, D., Būda, V., Mozūraitis, R., Servienė, E. (2020) Fungal microbiota of sea buckthorn berries at two ripening stages and volatile profiling of potential biocontrol yeasts. Microorganisms, 8 (3): art. no. 456. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8030456

Rudaitytė-Lukošienė, E., Delgado de las Cuevas, G. E., Prakas, P., Calero-Bernal, R ., Martinez-Gonzalez, M., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Ž., Servienė, E., Habela, M.A., Butkauskas, D. (2020) Sarcocystis spp. diversity in the roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) from Lithuania and Spain. Parasitology Research. 119 (4): 1363–1370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-020-06603-9

Prakas, P., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Z., Januškevičius, V., Chiesa, F., Baranauskaitė, A., Rudaitytė-Lukošienė, E., Servienė, E., Petkevičius, S., Butkauskas, D. (2020) Molecular identification of four Sarcocystis species in cattle from Lithuania, including S. hominis, and development of a rapid molecular detection method. Parasites & Vectors, 13 (1): art. no. 610. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-04473-9

Ravoitytė, B., Lukša, J., Yurchenko, V., Serva, S., Servienė, E. (2020) Saccharomyces paradoxus transcriptional alterations in cells of distinct phenotype and viral dsRNA content. Microorganisms, 8 (12): art. no. 1902. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8121902

Melvydas, V., Švedienė, J., Skridlaitė, G., Vaičiūnienė, J., Garjonytė, R. (2020) In vitro inhibition of Saccharomyces cerevisiae growth by Metschnikowia spp. triggered by fast removal of iron via two ways. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, 51 (4): 1953–1964. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42770-020-00357-3

de las Cuevas, G.E.D., Prakas, P., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Z., Martinez-Gonzalez, M., Rudaitytė-Lukošienė, E., Butkauskas, D., Servienė, E., Habela, M.A., Calero-Bernal, R. (2019) Sarcocystis morae (Apicomplexa) in fallow deer (Dama dama) from Spain: ultrastructure and new host record. Journal of Parasitology, 105 (5): 813–815. https://doi.org/10.1645/19-56

Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, I., Lukša, J., Stanevičienė, R., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Ž., Yurchenko, V., Serva, S., Servienė, E. (2018) Distribution of apple and blackcurrant microbiota in Lithuania and the Czech Republic. Microbiological Research. 206: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2017.09.004

Novickij, V., Stanevičienė, R., Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, I., Gruškienė, R., Krivorotova, T., Sereikaitė, J., Novickij, J., Servienė, E. (2018) Overcoming antimicrobial resistance in bacteria using bioactive magnetic nanoparticles and pulsed electromagnetic fields. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8: art. no. 2678. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02678

Mikalkėnas, A., Ravoitytė, B., Tauraitė, D., Servienė, E., Meškys, R., Serva, S. (2018) Conjugation of phosphonoacetic acid to nucleobase promotes a mechanism-based inhibition. Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry. 33 (1): 384-389. https://doi.org/10.1080/14756366.2017.1417275

Rudaitytė-Lukošienė, E., Prakas, P., Butkauskas, D., Kutkienė, L., Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, I., Servienė, E. (2018) Morphological and molecular identification of Sarcocystis spp. from the sika deer (Cervus nippon), including two new species Sarcocystis frondea and Sarcocystis nipponi. Parasitology Research. 117 (5): 1305-1315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5816-8

Prakas, P., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Z., Rudaitytė-Lukošienė, E., Servienė, E., Butkauskas, D. (2018) Molecular identification of Sarcocystis lutrae (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae) in muscles of five species of the family Mustelidae. Parasitology Research. 117 (6): 1989-1993. a href=”https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5880-0″>https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5880-0

Gruskienė, R., Krivorotova, T., Stanevičienė, R., Ratautas, D., Servienė, E., Sereikaitė, J. (2018) Preparation and characterization of iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles functionalized by nisin. Colloids and Surfaces B-Biointerfaces. 169: 126-134. a href=”https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.05.017″>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.05.017

Lukša, J., Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, I., Yurchenko, V., Serva, S., Servienė, E. (2018) High content analysis of sea buckthorn, black chokeberry, red and white currants microbiota – A pilot study. Food Research International. 111: 597-606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2018.05.060

Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, I., Lukša, J., Konovalovas, A., Ežerskytė, D., Stanevičienė, R., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Z., Serva, S., Servienė, E. (2018) Saccharomyces paradoxus K66 Killer System Evidences Expanded Assortment of Helper and Satellite Viruses. Viruses. 10 (10): art. no. 564. https://doi.org/10.3390/v10100564

Novickij, V., Zinkevičienė, A., Stanevičienė, R., Gruskienė, R., Servienė, E., Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, I., Krivorotova, T., Lastauskienė, E., Sereikaitė, J., Girkontaitė, I., Novickij, J. (2018) Inactivation of Escherichia coil using nanosecond electric fields and nisin nanoparticles: a kinetics study. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9: art. no. 3006. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.03006

Krivorotova, T., Stanevičienė, R., Lukša, J., Servienė, E., Sereikaitė, J. (2017) Impact of pectin esterification on the antimicrobial activity of nisin-loaded pectin particles. Biotechnology Progress. 33 (1): 245-251. https://doi.org/10.1002/btpr.2391

Ravoitytė, B., Wellinger, R.E. (2017) Non-Canonical Replication Initiation: You’re Fired! Genes. 8 (2): 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes8020054

Lukša, J., Ravoitytė, B., Konovalovas, A., Aitmanaitė, L., Butenko, A., Yurchenko, V., Serva, S., Servienė, E. (2017) Different metabolic pathways are involved in response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to L-A and M viruses. Toxins. 9 (8): art. no. 233. https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins9080233

Krivorotova T., Cirkovas A., Mačiulytė S., Stanevičienė R., Budrienė S., Servienė E., Sereikaitė J. (2016) Nisin-loaded pectin nanoparticles for food preservation. Food Hydrocolloids. 54 (Pt. A): 49-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodhyd.2015.09.015

Garjonytė R., Melvydas V.B., Malinauskas V. (2016) Mediated amperometry reveals different modes of yeast responses to sugars. Bioelectrochemistry. 107: 45-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioelechem.2015.10.006

Lukša J., Serva S., Servienė E. (2016) Saccharomyces cerevisiae K2 toxin requires acidic environment for unidirectional folding into active state. Mycoscience. 57 (1): 51-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.myc.2015.08.003

Melvydas V., Bružauskaitė I., Gedminienė G., Šiekštelė R. (2016) A novel Saccharomyces cerevisiae killer strain secreting the X factor related to killer activity and inhibition of S-cerevisiae K1, K2 and K28 killer toxins. Indian Journal of Microbiology. 56 (3): 335-343. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12088-016-0589-1

Krivorotova T., Stanevičienė R., Lukša J., Servienė E., Sereikaitė J. (2016) Preparation and characterization of nisin-loaded pectin-inulin particles as antimicrobials. LWT – Food Science and Technology. 72: 518-524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lwt.2016.05.022

Melvydas V., Stanevičienė R., Balynaitė A., Vaičiūnienė J., Garjonytė R. (2016) Formation of self-organized periodic patterns around yeasts secreting a precursor of a red pigment. Microbiological Research. 193: 87-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micres.2016.09.007

Novickij V., Stanevičienė R., Grainys A., Lukša J., Badokas K., Krivorotova T., Sereikaitė J., Novickij J., Servienė, E. (2016) Electroporation-assisted inactivation of Escherichia coli using nisin-loaded pectin nanoparticles. Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies. 38: 98-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifset.2016.09.019

Lukša, J., Podoliankaitė, M., Vepštaitė, I., Strazdaitė-Žielienė, Ž., Urbonavicius, J., Servienė, E. (2015) Yeast beta-1,6-Glucan is a primary target for the Saccharomyces cerevisiae K2 toxin. Eukaryotic Cell. 14 (4): 406-414. https://doi.org/10.1128/EC.00287-14

Garjonytė, R., Melvydas, V. B., Malinauskas, A. (2015) Yeast-modified electrodes as amperometric biosensors for glycerophosphate. Chemija. 26 (2): 79-83.

Garjonytė, R., Melvydas, V.B., Malinauskas, A. (2015) Evaluation of yeast capability to assimilate various carbohydrates by menadione-mediated amperometry. Chemija. 26 (3): 170-174.

Gylienė, O., Servienė, E., Vepštaitė, I., Binkienė, R., Baranauskas, M., Lukša, J. (2015) Correlation between the sorption of dissolved oxygen onto chitosan and its antimicrobial activity against Esherichia coli. Carbohydrate Polymers. 131: 218-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2015.05.068

Garjonytė, R., Melvydas, V. B., Paškevičius, A., Rašomavičius, V., Malinauskas, A. (2014) Mediated amperometry reveals two distinct modes of yeast responses to glucose. Central European Journal of Biology. 9 (2): 173-181. https://doi.org/10.2478/s11535-013-0257-y

Podoliankaitė, M., Lukša, J., Vyšniauskis, G., Sereikaitė, J., Melvydas, V. B., Serva, S., Servienė, E. (2014) High-yield expression in Escherichia coli, purification and application of budding yeast K2 killer protein. Molecular Biotechnology. 56 (7): 644-652. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12033-014-9740-6

Snopok, B., Naumenko, D., Servienė, E., Bružaitė, I., Stogrin, A., Kulys, J., Snitka, V. (2014) Evanescent-field-induced Raman scattering for bio-friendly fingerprinting at sub-cellular dimension. Talanta. 128: 414-421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2014.04.015

Naumenko, D., Snitka, V., Servienė, E., Bružaitė, I., Snopok, B. (2013) In vivo characterization of protein uptake by yeast cell envelope : single cell AFM imaging and m-tip-enhanced Raman scattering study. Analyst. 138 (18): 5371–5383. https://doi.org/10.1039/C3AN00362K

Naumenko, D., Snopok, B., Servienė, E., Bružaitė, I., Snitka, V. (2013) Confocal Raman Spectroscopy of Biological Objects under Conditions of Photoinduced Luminescence Self-Quenching. Theoretical and experimental chemistry. 49 (4): 228–234. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11237-013-9320-z

Servienė, E., Lukša, J., Orentaitė, I., Lafontaine, D. L.J., Urbonavičius, J. (2012) Screening the budding yeast genome reveals unique factors affecting K2 toxin susceptibility. PLoS ONE [elektroninis išteklius]. 7 (12): e50779. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050779

Paškevičius, A., Švedienė, J., Melvydas, V., Repečkienė, J., Bridžiuvienė, D. (2012) Aktyvių bakterijų izoliatų, slopinančių siloso gedimą sukeliančias mieles, paieška. Veterinarija ir zootechnika. 59(81): 58–64.

Raklevičienė, D., Losinska, R., Švegždienė, D. (2011) Clinorotation effect on response of cress leaves to red and far-red light. Microgravity science and technology. 23 (2): 227-233. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12217-010-9208-7

Servienė, E., Palevičienė, S. and Časaitė, V. (2010) Toxicity of α-synuclein and Aβ40 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Romanian biotechnological letters. 15 (6): 5773–5780.

Kurtinaitienė, B., Razumienė, J., Gurevičienė, V., Melvydas, V., Marcinkevičienė, L., Bachmatova, I., Meškys, R. and Laurinavičius, R. (2010) Application of oxygen-independent biosensor for testing yeast fermentation capacity. Biosensors & bioelectronics. 26 (2): 766–771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bios.2010.06.038