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Computational Analysis of Thermal Adaptation in Extremophilic Chitinases: The Achilles’ Heel in Protein Structure and Industrial Utilization

Molecules, 2021
Understanding protein stability is critical for the application of enzymes in biotechnological processes. The structural basis for the stability of thermally adapted chitinases has not yet been examined.
Dale L. Ang, Mubasher Zahir Hoque, Md. Abir Hossain, Gea Guerriero, Roberto Berni, Jean-Francois Hausman, Saleem A Bokhari, Wallace J. Bridge, Khawar Sohail Siddiqui   +8 more
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Gene induction during plant-microbe interactions : the role of chitinases during fungal infection and the investigation of mycorrhiza-induced genes in the model plant "M. truncatula" [PDF]

, 2007
In this thesis, the model legume Medicago truncatula was used for research on plant-microbe interactions. Unlike most other plants, legumes are able to form two distinct root symbioses. Together with soil-borne fungi of the Glomeromycota, they form the
Feddermann Bühler, Nadja
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A holin and an endopeptidase are essential for chitinolytic protein secretion in Serratia marcescens [PDF]

, 2014
Pathogenic bacteria adapt to their environment and manipulate the biochemistry of hosts by secretion of effector molecules. Serratia marcescens is an opportunistic pathogen associated with healthcare-acquired infections and is a prolific secretor of ...
Guo, Manman, Sargent, Frank, Sarah J. Coulthurst, Buchanan, Grant, Stanley-Wall, Nicola R.; id_orcid, Nicola R. Stanley-Wall, Owen, Richard A., Trost, Matthias, Govind Chandra, Coulthurst, Sarah J.; id_orcid, Matthias Trost, Tracy Palmer, Costa, Marília de Assis Alcoforado, Victoria L. Marlow, Richard A. Owen, Palmer, Tracy, Jaeger J. Hamilton, Hamilton, Jaeger J., Manman Guo, Marlow, Victoria L., Grant Buchanan, Chandra, Govind, Marília de Assis Alcoforado Costa, Frank Sargent   +23 more
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Evidence supporting a role for mammalian chitinases in efficacy of caspofungin against experimental aspergillosis in immunocompromised rats. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
Caspofungin, currently used as salvage therapy for invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), strangely only causes morphological changes in fungal growth in vitro but does not inhibit the growth. In vivo it has good efficacy.
Patricia E B Verwer, Marian T ten Kate, Franco H Falcone, Shaun Morroll, Henri A Verbrugh, Irma A J M Bakker-Woudenberg, Wendy W J van de Sande   +6 more
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Identification of the key chitinase genes in Tetranychus cinnabarinus (Boisduval) based on the expression and sequence characteristic analysis

Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2017
Chitin is an important content in the exoskeletons of arthropods, and its hydrolyzation is catalyzed by chitinases during the process of molting, thus, the chitinases are considered as ideal target to interfere the growth of arthropods.
Hao-ran XU, Lin HE, Wei XIAO, Guang-mao SHEN   +3 more
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Metagenomics uncovers dietary adaptations for chitin digestion in the gut microbiota of convergent myrmecophagous mammals

mSystems, 2023
In mammals, myrmecophagy (ant and termite consumption) represents a striking example of dietary convergence. This trait evolved independently at least five times in placentals with myrmecophagous species comprising aardvarks, anteaters, some armadillos ...
Sophie Teullet, Marie-Ka Tilak, Amandine Magdeleine, Roxane Schaub, Nora M. Weyer, Wendy Panaino, Andrea Fuller, W. J. Loughry, Nico L. Avenant, Benoit de Thoisy, Guillaume Borrel, Frédéric Delsuc   +11 more
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Produção, purificação, clonagem e aplicação de enzimas líticas Production, purification, cloning and application of lytic enzymes

Química Nova, 2005
Lytic enzymes such as beta-1,3 glucanases, proteases and chitinases are able to hydrolyse, respectively, beta-1,3 glucans, mannoproteins and chitin, as well as the cell walls of many yeast species.
Luciana Francisco Fleuri, Hélia Harumi Sato   +1 more
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The Natural Product Citral Can Cause Significant Damage to the Hyphal Cell Walls of Magnaporthe grisea

Molecules, 2014
In order to find a natural alternative to the synthetic fungicides currently used against the devastating rice blast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea, this study explored the antifungal potential of citral and its mechanism of action.
Rong-Yu Li, Xiao-Mao Wu, Xian-Hui Yin, Jing-Nan Liang, Ming Li   +4 more
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Systemin modulates defense responses in roots of tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum L.) during the pre-colonization stage of the mycorrhizal symbiosis

Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 2022
Aim of study: The symbiotic association with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) enhances the uptake of soil minerals by the plant, predominantly phosphorus, in return for plant photosynthates.
Blanca M. de la Noval, Norma A. Martínez-Gallardo, John P. Délano-Frier   +2 more
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Microbiome perspective: multisectorial exploitations of chitinases

, 2022
Chitinases are cosmopolitan lytic enzymes secreted by microbiomes that fall under the domain of fungi, yeasts, bacteria and plants. Most fungal plant pathogens, human infectious agents and post-harvest damage caused by pathogens have been a serious ...
González Grau, Juan Miguel, Khobragade, Chandrahasya N., Mangesh Vasant Suryavanshi, Suryavanshi, Mangesh Vasant, Rekadwad, Bhagwan N., Sujit Shah, Shah, S., Chandrahasya N. Khobragade, Warghane, Ashish J., Juan M. Gonzalez, Ashish Janraoji Warghane, Bhagwan Rekadwad   +11 more
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