OBJECTIVES The inhibitory effects of iron chelators, and FeCl3 chelation on biofilm formation and swarming motility were investigated against an opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. MATERIALS AND METHODS The inhibitory activity of 2,2'-bipyridyl, lipoic acid, kojic acid and picolinic acid on biofilm formation of P. aeruginosa strain PAO1 and three clinical isolates (P. aerugin...

Attention is devoted to the role of chelating agents in the treatment of aluminium related diseases. In fact, in spite of the efforts that have drastically reduced the occurrence of aluminium dialysis diseases, they so far constitute a cause of great medical concern. The use of chelating agents for iron and aluminium in different clinical applications has found increasing attention in the last ...

Benzoate competes with n-amino acids for n-amino acid oxidase and thus inhibits the activity of the oxidase (l-3). Monosubstituted benzoates, depending upon the substituent, have higher and lower affinities for the oxidase than has benzoate (2). Kojic acid, a Y-pyrone, likewise competitively inhibits the oxidase (4). The present report describes the inhibition of n-amino acid oxidase by certain...

Aspergillus subgenus Circumdati section Flavi includes species with usually biseriate conidial heads, in shades of yellow-green to brown, and dark sclerotia. Several species assigned to this section are either important mycotoxin producers including aflatoxins, cyclopiazonic acid, ochratoxins and kojic acid, or are used in oriental food fermentation processes and as hosts for heterologous gene ...

Objective(s):The inhibitory effects of iron chelators, and FeCl3 chelation on biofilm formation and swarming motility were investigated against an opportunistic human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Materials and Methods:The inhibitory activity of 2,2’-bipyridyl, lipoic acid, kojic acid and picolinic acidonbiofilm formation of P. aeruginosa strain PAO1 and three clinical isolates (P. aeruginos...

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Benzoate competes with n-amino acids for n-amino acid oxidase and thus inhibits the activity of the oxidase (l-3). Monosubstituted benzoates, depending upon the substituent, have higher and lower affinities for the oxidase than has benzoate (2). Kojic acid, a Y-pyrone, likewise competitively inhibits the oxidase (4). The present report describes the inhibition of n-amino acid oxidase by certain...