Many fungi that cause invasive disease invade host epithelial cells during mucosal and respiratory infection, and subsequently invade endothelial cells during hematogenous infection. Most fungi invade these normally non-phagocytic host cells by inducing their own uptake. Candida albicans hyphae interact with endothelial cells in vitro by binding to N-cadherin on the endothelial cell surface. Th...

The effect of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) on pathogenic fungi and Nocardia asteroides was studied. Sputa seeded with each of 11 organisms (Aspergillus flavus; Aspergillus fumigatus, Blastomyces dermatitidis, Candida albicans, Coccidioides immitis, Cryptococcus neoformans, Geotrichum candidum, Histoplasma capsulatum; Nocardia asteroides, Paracoccidioides brasiliensis, and Sporothrix schenckii...

Since 2004, unspecific peroxygenases, in short UPOs (EC. 1.11.2.1), have been explored. are closing a gap between P450 monooxygenases and chloroperoxidases. These enzymes highly active biocatalysts for the selective oxyfunctionalisation of C–H, C=C C-C bonds. secreted fungal proteins Komagataella phaffii (Pichia pastoris) is an ideal host high throughput screening approaches UPO production. Het...

Background and objectives: Trigonella tehranica (Leguminosae) is an indigenous plant in northern regions of Iran. There were many reports about antimicrobial activity of other specious of this genus; therefore, the aim of present study was investigation of chemical compounds and antimicrobial activities of T. tehranica essential oils for the first time. <stron...

Parastacus brasiliensis promatensis subsp. n. is described from São Francisco de Paula, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The animals were collected at an elevation of 850 m, representing the first record of Parastacidae at high altitude in Brazil. Subspecies recognition was performed through the analysis of morphometrical characters. Discriminant analysis was applied to compare P. brasiliensis promat...

Ethylene is an important factor that stimulates Hevea brasiliensis to produce natural rubber. 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase (ACS) is a rate-limiting enzyme in ethylene biosynthesis. However, knowledge of the ACS gene family of H. brasiliensis is limited. In this study, nine ACS-like genes were identified in H. brasiliensis. Sequence and phylogenetic analysis results confirmed t...

Recently, the morphological and molecular features of five stain fungi infecting rubberwood (Hevea brasiliensis), namely Paecilomyces maximus, formosus, Penicillium crustosum, lecythidis Aspergillus chevalieri, have been studied. Prior to this study, authors revealed that catechin from gambir (Uncaria gambir) could inhibit growth white-rot fungus Schizophyllum commune, it was important determin...

The infectious process starts with an initial contact between pathogen and host. We have previously demonstrated that Paracoccidioides brasiliensis conidia interact with plasma proteins including fibrinogen, which is considered the major component of the coagulation system. In this study, we evaluated the in vitro capacity of P. brasiliensis conidia to aggregate with plasma proteins and compoun...

Citation: Fróes AM, Freitas TC, Vidal L, Appolinario LR, Leomil L, Venas T, Campeão ME, Silva CJF, Moreira APB, Berlinck RGS, Thompson FL and Thompson CC (2018) Genomic Attributes of Novel Symbiont Pseudovibrio brasiliensis sp. nov. Isolated From the Sponge Arenosclera brasiliensis. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:81. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00081 Genomic Attributes of Novel Symbiont Pseudovibrio brasiliens...