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Pathogens
December 2024
M.M. Shemyakin and Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117997 Moscow, Russia.
Today, is still the most common cause of both local and life-threatening systemic candidiasis. The spread of resistant fungal strains has resulted in an urgent need to search for new promising antimycotics. Here, we investigated the antifungal action of the tobacco defensin NaD1 against susceptible and resistant to azoles and echinocandins strains of .
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December 2024
Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Via Cinthia, 80126 Naples, Italy.
species constitute the most common cause of fungal infections in humans; the emergence of resistance and biofilm formation by species further threaten the limited availability of antifungal agents. Over the past decade, . has caused significant outbreaks worldwide and has emerged as a human pathogenic fungus that causes diseases ranging from superficial to life-threatening disseminated infections.
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December 2024
Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, Poznań University of Life Sciences, Wojska Polskiego 31, 60-624 Poznań, Poland.
This study investigates the impact of key factors on the formation of odorants and sensory properties in mead. The effects of the honey type (acacia, buckwheat, linden), wort heating, and the fermentation method (commercial yeasts, spontaneous fermentation, molds) were examined. Twelve model mead batches were produced, matured for 12 months, and analyzed using gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O) and headspace SPME-GC/MS to identify odor-active compounds.
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December 2024
Key Laboratory of Breeding Biotechnology and Sustainable Aquaculture (CAS), Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266000, China.
Marine microalgae are a rich source of natural products, and their amino acid-based antimicrobial agents are usually obtained by enzymatic hydrolysis, which is inefficient and limits the research on antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) from microalgae. In this study, is used as a model to predict antimicrobial peptides through high-throughput methods, and 471 putative peptides are identified based on the de novo transcriptome technique. Among them, three short peptides, P1, P6, and P7 were found to have antimicrobial activity against , , , and yeast , and they showed no hemolytic activity even at higher concentrations up to 10 mg/mL.
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December 2024
Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
Bgl2p is a major, conservative, constitutive glucanosyltransglycosylase of the yeast cell wall (CW) with amyloid amino acid sequences, strongly non-covalently anchored in CW, but is able to leave it. In the environment, Bgl2p can form fibrils and/or participate in biofilm formation. Despite a long study, the question of how Bgl2p is anchored in CW remains unclear.
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