Targeting Ras-ERK cascade by bioactive natural products for potential treatment of cancer: an updated overview

ES Ali, S Akter, S Ramproshad, B Mondal… - Cancer cell …, 2022 - Springer
MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase) or ERK (extracellular-signal-regulated kinase)
pathway is an important link in the transition from extracellular signals to intracellular …

Novel Antifungal Agents and Their Activity against Aspergillus Species

R Vahedi-Shahandashti, C Lass-Flörl - Journal of Fungi, 2020 - mdpi.com
There is a need for new antifungal agents, mainly due to increased incidence of invasive
fungal infections (IFI), high frequency of associated morbidity and mortality and limitations of …

Progress toward understanding protein S-acylation: prospective in plants

Y Li, B Qi - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017 - frontiersin.org
S-acylation, also known as S-palmitoylation or palmitoylation, is a reversible post-
translational lipid modification in which long chain fatty acid, usually the 16-carbon …

Updates on the Functions and Molecular Mechanisms of the Genes Involved in Aspergillus flavus Development and Biosynthesis of Aflatoxins

E Tumukunde, R Xie, S Wang - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Aspergillus flavus (A. flavus) is a ubiquitous and opportunistic fungal pathogen that causes
invasive and non-invasive aspergillosis in humans and animals. This fungus is also capable …

The pathogenicity of Aspergillus fumigatus, drug resistance, and nanoparticle delivery

DA Szalewski, VS Hinrichs, DK Zinniel… - Canadian journal of …, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
The genus Aspergillus includes fungal species that cause major health issues of significant
economic importance. These microorganisms are also the culprit for production of …

Structure-guided approaches to targeting stress responses in human fungal pathogens

EV LeBlanc, EJ Polvi, AO Veri, GG Privé… - Journal of Biological …, 2020 - ASBMB
Fungi inhabit extraordinarily diverse ecological niches, including the human body. Invasive
fungal infections have a devastating impact on human health worldwide, killing∼ 1.5 million …

Small GTPases RasA and RasB regulate development, patulin production, and virulence of Penicillium expansum

Y Zong, X Zhang, D Gong, F Zhang, L Yu, Y Bi… - Postharvest Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ras GTPases belong to one of the small G proteins, which regulate morphology and growth
of filamentous fungi. However, whether Ras GTPases are involved in the biological process …

Epigenetic and posttranslational modifications in regulating the biology of Aspergillus species

X Nie, B Li, S Wang - Advances in applied microbiology, 2018 - Elsevier
Epigenetic and posttranslational modifications have been proved to participate in multiple
cellular processes and suggested to be an important regulatory mechanism on transcription …

The Aspergillus fumigatus farnesyltransferase β-subunit, RamA, mediates growth, virulence, and antifungal susceptibility

TS Norton, Q Al Abdallah, AM Hill, RV Lovingood… - Virulence, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Post-translational prenylation mechanisms, including farnesylation and geranylgeranylation,
mediate both subcellular localization and protein-protein interaction in eukaryotes. The …

GPCRs from fusarium graminearum detection, modeling and virtual screening - the search for new routes to control head blight disease

E Bresso, R Togawa, K Hammond-Kosack, M Urban… - BMC …, 2016 - Springer
Backgound Fusarium graminearum (FG) is one of the major cereal infecting pathogens
causing high economic losses worldwide and resulting in adverse effects on human and …