… polymerized melanin was made during infection, we attempted to isolate fungal melanin
particles from infected rodent … took advantage of the fact that melanin is resistant to the protease, …

… of tissue and that melanin pigment synthesized in vivo is … as a polymerization precursor is
capable of producing melanin … display reduced virulence in mice and decreased melanization …

… polymerized melanin is synthesized during infection (see below). Synthesis of polymerized
melanin in … Second, melanin ghosts were isolated from infected mice but not from uninfected …

… This would suggest that melanin polymerization occurs with the cell wall acting as a …
Inhibition of melanization with glyphosate improves experimental cryptococcal infection in mice. …

… it could conceivably polymerize host substrates into melanin in … that melanin ghosts can be
recovered from mice infected … not only catalyzes the synthesis of melanin but also has direct …

… neoformans to synthesize melanin is essential for virulence [6, 7]. Melanins are amorphous,
… with melanin polymerization or rearrangement may be useful therapeutics in the treatment of …

… dihydroxyphenylalanine to synthesize melanin. Microbes can … Direct evidence for the
polymerization of melanin in vivo was … Cryptococcus neoformans melanin is involved in the …

… Wangiella dermatitidis synthesize melanin from endogenous … In contrast, within rodent brain,
the highest level of … ), a concentration not optimal for melanin polymerization. In addition, as …

… on the melanization of Cryptococcus neoformans. In this … did not produce a band of polymerized
DOPA-melanin. … suggestive evidence for enzymatic synthesis of melanin in yeast cells, …

… rearrangement through sequential polymerization, followed by … of infected mice were taken
7 days after infection, and mice … and nonmelanized Cryptococcus neoformans to the melanin-…