Interactions of Melanin with Electromagnetic Radiation: From Fundamentals to Applications

W Xie, A Dhinojwala, NC Gianneschi… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
radiation have mostly focused on a small radiation range (nonionizing radiation or ionizing
radiation) or on a specific melanin … from the enhanced electron transfer of melanin in NADH …

Melanin is effective in protecting fast and slow growing fungi from various types of ionizing radiation

C Pacelli, RA Bryan, S Onofri… - Environmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… -rays have been shown to alter the electronic properties of … investigation revealed that
ionizing radiation stimulates protein … role of melanin in fungal cells, coupled with increases in …

Exposure to ionizing radiation affects the growth of ectomycorrhizal fungi and induces increased melanin production and increased capacities of reactive oxygen …

D Kothamasi, J Wannijn, M Van Hees, R Nauts… - … radioactivity, 2019 - Elsevier
… of EM fungi to ionizing radiation will also increase the resistance of … melanin and ROS
scavenging enzymes such as catalase and SOD in the response of EM fungi to ionizing radiation. …

… changes in melanized and non-melanized Cryptococcus neoformans cells post exposure to sparsely and densely ionizing radiation demonstrate protective effect of …

ME Malo, RA Bryan, I Shuryak, E Dadachova - Fungal biology, 2018 - Elsevier
… This morphological investigation provides the first direct evidence of the radioprotective
properties of melanin in CN cells subjected to high RBE and high LET ionizing radiation. …

Melanin as an energy transducer and a radioprotector in black fungi

ME Malo, E Dadachova - Fungi in extreme environments: ecological role …, 2019 - Springer
… on the functional response of melanin to ionizing radiation and the ways this functional …
Evidence for the role of melanin in enhanced survival can be found not just in its resistant to …

Melanin, radiation, and energy transduction in fungi

A Casadevall, RJB Cordero, R Bryan… - Microbiology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
… and enhanced growth upon exposure to gamma rays depend on the … electronic properties
as measured by electron spin … Because the energy of the ionizing radiation is several orders of …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the optical properties of metal-modified melanin following ultraviolet irradiation: An experimental and theoretical study using density functional …

N Madkhali, S Algessair - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
… range of 4.4–4.6 electron volts, clearly indicating enhanced structural properties in the
presence of metals. In this study, we aspire to investigate the ability to modify the absorption …

[HTML][HTML] A biomimetic approach to shielding from ionizing radiation: The case of melanized fungi

T Vasileiou, L Summerer - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… [10], after demonstrating that ionizing radiation changes the electronic properties of melanin
and … This arrangement has been suggested to increase the scattering of incident photons …

Microbial melanin physiology under stress conditions and gamma radiation protection studies

HA El-Bialy, MS El-Gamal, MA Elsayed… - Radiation Physics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
… and electronic properties, thin films of synthetic melanin have … The present study aims to
enhance the melanin production … for the most penetrating ionizing radiation; gamma rays. A semi …

Influence of eumelanin and gamma irradiation on ZnO nanocomposite properties

BA El-Badry, N Madkhali, AM Deghady - Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
… , structural, optical, and electrical properties of ZnO … Finally, neuromelanin differs from these
two classes of melanin and is … The ionizing radiation techniques can change the properties