… protective immunity to Cryptococcal infection in mice through … Melanin synthesis though this
pathway begins with the union … ) glucan affects Cryptococcus neoformans from ultrastructure …

… Phagocytosis blocking has been observed by melanized Cryptococcus neoformans and …
Synthesis of polymerized melanin by Cryptococcus neoformans in infected rodents. …

… the basidiomycetous yeast Cryptococcus neoformans [Citation7… polymerized into melanin.
This pathway is known as the DHN–… On the other hand, certain fungi synthesize melanin using …

… occurs by oxidative polymerization of phenolic … Melanin synthesis pathway from L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine
(L-DOPA) in fungi Cryptococcus neoformans resembles the melanin …

… Melanin is a negatively charged hydrophobic high molecular weight pigment that is formed
by oxidative polymerization of … the regulation of chitosan biosynthesis of C. gattii and its …

… that can polymerize into eumelanins [40]. Cryptococcus neoformans cannot carry out this …
The diversity of pathways that organisms use to synthesize melanin explains in part why …

… kills the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans. We developed methods … polymerization of
homogentisic acid, and black-brown DHN … The Raper-Mason pathway of melanin biosynthesis …

… and Cryptococcus neoformans and their melanin biosynthetic mutants and provide a rough
“map” of the DHN (A. fumigatus) and DOPA (C. … We find that the fully polymerized A. nidulans …

… Laccase activity was perturbed, as was melanin production, in … neoformans (46), although
actin polymerization itself was not … EV biosynthesis has been most extensively studied in …

… via the oxidation and polymerization of aromatic ring compounds. … ) melanin from endogenously
synthesized substrates, C. … neoformans is unable to synthesize melanin pigments from …