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Altered Expression of Chemosensory and Odorant Binding Proteins in Response to Fungal Infection in the Red Imported Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta [PDF]

, 2021
Wei Zhang, Almudena Ortiz‐Urquiza, Nemat O. Keyhani   +2 more
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Membrane Fusion‐Inspired Nanomaterials: Emerging Strategies for Infectious Disease and Cancer Diagnostics

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Membrane fusion‐inspired nanomaterials offer transformative potential in diagnostics by mimicking natural fusion processes to achieve highly sensitive and specific detection of disease biomarkers. This review highlights recent advancements in nanomaterial functionalization strategies, signal amplification systems, and stimuli‐responsive fusion designs,
Sojeong Lee, Khulan Nyamzaya, Jueun Han, Yejin Song, Jihee Lee, Jung Hyun Jo, Seungmin Bang, Eun‐Kyung Lim, Seungjoo Haam, Eunjung Kim   +9 more
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Redefining Therapies for Drug‐Resistant Tuberculosis: Synergistic Effects of Antimicrobial Peptides, Nanotechnology, and Computational Design

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Antimicrobial peptide (AMP)‐loaded nanocarriers provide a multifunctional strategy to combat drug‐resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. By enhancing intracellular delivery, bypassing efflux pumps, and disrupting bacterial membranes, this platform restores phagolysosome fusion and macrophage function.
Christian S. Carnero Canales, Jessica Ingrid Marquez Cazorla, Renzo Marianito Marquez Cazorla, Aline Martins dos Santos, Jonatas Lobato Duarte, Letícia Oliveira Catarin Nunes, Túlio Custódio Reis, Lara Cerazi Salvador, Norival Alves Santos‐Filho, Rafael Miguel Sábio, Hélder A. Santos, Fernando Rogério Pavan   +11 more
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Global Analysis of Predicted G Protein-Coupled Receptor Genes in the Filamentous Fungus, Neurospora crassa. [PDF]

, 2015
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) regulate facets of growth, development, and environmental sensing in eukaryotes, including filamentous fungi. The largest predicted GPCR class in these organisms is the Pth11-related, with members similar to a protein ...
Ahrendt, Steven R, Barsoum, Andrew H, Borkovich, Katherine A, Cabrera, Ilva E, Cao, Jackie, Carrillo, Alexander J, Castillo, Ronald, Chen, Wan-Ching, Davidson, Liza M, Dinkchian, Alex, Guerrero, Nayeli, Kim, Stephanie, Kitada, Sho M, Krystofova, Svetlana, Lai, Taffani H, Li, Liande, Lim, Andrew, Mach, Ashley, Malekyan, Cristin, Michkov, Alexander V, Moua, Toua R, Pacentine, Itallia V, Servin, Jacqueline A, Torres, Carlos Rojas, Yamamoto, Alaina   +24 more
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Fungal genomes tell a story of ecological adaptations [PDF]

, 2014
One genome enables a fungus to have various lifestyles and strategies depending on environmental conditions and in the presence of specific counterparts.
Muszewska, Anna
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Highly Tunable and Cell‐Remodelable Thiol‐ene Alginate‐Peptide Crosslinked Hydrogels to Recreate Cellular and Organoid Microenvironments for Biofabrication

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Norbornene‐functionalized alginate is crosslinked with a di‐thiolated peptide sequence cleavable by cell‐secreted matrix metalloproteinases and decorated with cell‐adhesion peptides upon exposure to UV. Thyroid follicles, endometrial and intestinal organoids are encapsulated in a gentle manner with high cell viability and correct phenotype ...
Julia Fernández‐Pérez, Adrián Seijas‐Gamardo, Antonio J. Feliciano, Panagiota Kakni, Anna M. Kip, Paul Wieringa, Stefan Giselbrecht, Matthew B. Baker, Lorenzo Moroni   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exposure to specific fungal lectins during adhesion impairs biofilm formation of Listeria on polystyrene

Microbial Biotechnology
Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic bacterium that can form biofilms in food processing plants, allowing the bacteria to survive despite the control measures applied.
Nika Janež, Márta Ladányi, Meta Sterniša, Blaž Jug, Tanja Zupan, Tjaša Peternel, Aleksandar Sebastijanović, Milica Perišić Nanut, Katarina Karničar, Ajda Taler‐Verčič, Dušan Turk, Anja Klančnik, Janez Štrancar, Jerica Sabotič   +13 more
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Genome Sequence of the Chestnut Blight Fungus Cryphonectria parasitica EP155: A Fundamental Resource for an Archetypical Invasive Plant Pathogen. [PDF]

, 2020
Cryphonectria parasitica is the causal agent of chestnut blight, a fungal disease that almost entirely eliminated mature American chestnut from North America over a 50-year period. Here, we formally report the genome of C. parasitica EP155 using a Sanger
Aerts, Andrea, Barry, Kerrie, Churchill, Alice CL, Crouch, Jo Anne, Dawe, Angus, Grigoriev, Igor V, Grimwood, Jane, Hillman, Bradley I, Milgroom, Michael G, Nuss, Donald L, Pangilinan, Jasmyn, Salamov, Asaf, Schmutz, Jeremy, Smith, Myron, Yadav, Jagjit S   +14 more
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Basal rot of narcissus : understanding pathogenicity in fusarium oxysporum f. sp. narcissi [PDF]

, 2019
Fusarium oxysporum is a globally distributed soilborne fungal pathogen causing root rots, bulb rots, crown rots and vascular wilts on a range of horticultural plants. Pathogenic F.
Armitage, Andrew D., Clarkson, John P., Handy, Claire, Harrison, Richard J., Hulin, Michelle T., Jackson, Alison C., Taylor, Andrew   +6 more
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Toxicity of Potential Fungal Defense Proteins towards the Fungivorous Nematodes Aphelenchus avenae and Bursaphelenchus okinawaensis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2018
Our results support the hypothesis that cytoplasmic proteins abundant in fungal fruiting bodies are involved in fungal resistance against predation. The toxicity of these proteins toward stylet-feeding nematodes, which are also capable of feeding on ...
Annageldi Tayyrov, Stefanie S. Schmieder, S. Bleuler-Martinez, D. F. Plaza, M. Künzler   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source