“…In the model fungus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae , five important cellular development events, namely sporulation, cell wall integrity, osmoregulation, sexual mating, and filamentous (pseudohyphal) growth, have been shown to be regulated respectively by five established MAPK pathways ( Chen and Thorner, 2007 ; Vallejo and Mayinger, 2015 ). Specifically, S. cerevisiae Hog1 is integral to the osmoregulatory signal transduction cascade ( Nancy et al, 2015 ), Fus3/Kss1 are essential for sexual reproduction and regulate chronological life span ( Maneesha et al, 2017 ), and MPK1 is involved in cell wall integrity ( Kim et al, 2018 ). In addition, a specialized type of MAPKs in fungi and mammalian was termed as stress-activated protein kinases (SAPKs), as it is responsible for stress response, including heat shock, hyperosmolarity, ultraviolet (UV) light irradiation, and oxidative stress ( Brown et al, 2014 ).…”