Melanin Promotes Spore Production in the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 The rice blast pathogen, Magnaporthe oryzae, spreads through spores and invades rice through appressoria. Melanin is necessary for an appressorium to penetrate plant cells, but there are many unknown aspects of its role in fungal conidiation.
Pengyun Huang +9 more
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BMC Biology, 2023 Background Melanin plays important roles in morphological development, survival, host–pathogen interactions and in the virulence of phytopathogenic fungi.
Huan Li +12 more
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Bioprocess of Microbial Melanin Production and Isolation
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 Melanin is one of the most abundant pigments found in the biosphere. Owing to its high biocompatibility and diverse biological activities, it has been widely applied as a functional biomaterial in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical, biopolymer, and ...
Kwon‐Young Choi
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Fruit over sunbed : carotenoid skin coloration is found more attractive than melanin coloration [PDF]
, 2015 Skin coloration appears to play a pivotal part in facial attractiveness. Skin yellowness contributes to an attractive appearance and is influenced both by dietary carotenoids and by melanin.
Lefevre, Carmen E, Perrett, David I
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Microbial Cell Factories, 2022 Background Melanins are a heterologous group of biopolymeric pigments synthesized by diverse prokaryotes and eukaryotes and are widely utilized as bioactive materials and functional polymers in the biotechnology industry.
Han Sae Lee +6 more
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Radiofrequency Irradiation Mitigated UV-B-Induced Skin Pigmentation by Increasing Lymphangiogenesis
Molecules, 2022 Dermal macrophages containing melanin increase skin pigmentation since dermal melanin removal is slower than epidermal melanin removal. Lymphatic vessels are also involved in melanin clearance. We evaluated whether radiofrequency (RF) irradiation induced
Hyoung Moon Kim +7 more
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Transplantable melanomas in hamsters and gerbils as models for human melanoma : sensitization in melanoma radiotherapy : from animal models to clinical trials [PDF]
, 2018 The focus of the present review is to investigate the role of melanin in the radioprotection of melanoma and attempts to sensitize tumors to radiation by inhibiting melanogenesis. Early studies showed radical scavenging, oxygen consumption and adsorption
Andrzej Słominski +11 more
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Melanin Pigment in Plants: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 The word “melanin” refers to a group of high molecular weight, black, and brown pigments formed through the oxidation and polymerization of phenolic compounds. This pigment is present in all kingdoms of living organisms, but it remains the most enigmatic
A. Glagoleva, O. Shoeva, E. Khlestkina
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Visible light is a better co-inducer of apoptosis for curcumin-treated human melanoma cells than UVA [PDF]
, 2013 Curcumin attracts worldwide scientific interest due to its anti-proliferative and apoptosis inducing effects on different tumor cells at concentrations ranging from 10 to 150 µM (3.7–55 µg/ml).
Bernd, August +7 more
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Subcellular Compartmentalization and Trafficking of the Biosynthetic Machinery for Fungal Melanin
Cell Reports, 2016 Protection by melanin depends on its subcellular location. Although most filamentous fungi synthesize melanin via a polyketide synthase pathway, where and how melanin biosynthesis occurs and how it is deposited as extracellular granules remain elusive ...
Srijana Upadhyay +5 more
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