Protection from photodynamic damage by fungus melanins

AA Aver'yanov, VP Lapikova, GG Petelina… - Biology Bulletin of the …, 1987 - elibrary.ru
The photodamage of Pyricularia oryzae fungus spores sesitized with methylene blue or
acridine orange has been studied, Mutants with blocked melanin biosynthesis have been …

Melanin pigments of fungi under extreme environmental conditions

NN Gessler, AS Egorova, TA Belozerskaya - Applied Biochemistry and …, 2014 - Springer
Melanin Pigments of Fungi under Extreme Environmental Conditions (Review) Page 1 ISSN
0003 6838, Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology, 2014, Vol. 50, No. 2, pp. 105–113. © …

Melanins and resistance of fungi to lysis

BJ Bloomfield, M Alexander - Journal of Bacteriology, 1967 - Am Soc Microbiol
Hyphal walls of Aspergillus phoenicis and Sclerotium rolfsii are composed of large amounts
of glucose-and N-acetylhexosamine-containing polysaccharides, and the walls are …

Light influence on melaninogenesis of Cladosporium cladosporioides (Fresen) de Vries

MA Fomina, EN Gromosova… - Biopolymers and …, 1996 - biopolymers.org.ua
The effect of light and VV-irradiation on the melanin production of Cladosporium
cladosporioides was studied. It was shown that these factors don't have considerable …

Antioxidant properties of fungal melanin pigments

VV Shcherba, VG Babitskaya, VP Kurchenko… - Applied Biochemistry …, 2000 - Springer
Fungal melanin pigments were shown to display a high antioxidant activity. An increase in
the number of methyl substituents in benzidine molecules of melanins obtained from …

Inactivation of wild type and mutant Aspergillus nidulans conidia by far-UV, near-UV, visible and sun lights

MA Al-Rubeai, MF El-Hassi - Environmental and experimental botany, 1986 - Elsevier
Abstract Inactivation experiments with Aspergillus (Emericella) nidulans strains differing in
their conidial color were conducted. The green color in the wild type strain is caused by the …

Antioxidant features of fungal melanin pigments

VV Shcherba, VG Babitskaia… - Prikladnaia …, 2000 - europepmc.org
Fungal melanin pigments were shown to display a high antioxidant activity. An increase in
the number of methyl substituents in benzidine molecules of melanins obtained from …

Inhibition of the lysis of fungi by melanins

MJ Kuo, M Alexander - Journal of Bacteriology, 1967 - Am Soc Microbiol
Evidence is presented that the resistance of Aspergillus nidulans hyphae to lysis by a β-(1→
3) glucanase-chitinase mixture results from the presence of melanin in the fungal walls. The …

The photochemical and surface-active properties of melanins isolated from some black fungi

II Turkovskii, NA Yurlova - Microbiology, 2002 - Springer
The absorption spectra of melanins isolated from some black ascomycetes, as well as of
synthetic melanin and natural melanin from Sepia officinalis, were recorded in the long …

Melanin biosynthesis: prerequisite for successful invasion of the plant host by appressoria of Colletotrichum and Pyricularia

Y Kubo, I Furusawa - The fungal spore and disease initiation in plants and …, 1991 - Springer
Melanin Biosynthesis Page 1 9 Melanin Biosynthesis Prerequisite for Successfullnvasion of the
Plant Host by Appressoria of Colletotrichum and Pyricularia Yasuyuki Kubo and lwao …