Melanin and pyomelanin in Aspergillus fumigatus: from its genetics to host interaction

Fungal melanin stimulates surfactant protein D–mediated opsonization of and host immune response toAspergillus fumigatusspores

(2018) Sarah Sze Wah Wong et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Proteomics ofAspergillus fumigatusConidia-containing Phagolysosomes Identifies Processes Governing Immune Evasion

(2018) Hella Schmidt et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

Transcriptome Study of an Exophiala dermatitidis PKS1 Mutant on an ex Vivo Skin Model: Is Melanin Important for Infection?

(2018) Caroline Poyntner et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Recognition of DHN-melanin by a C-type lectin receptor is required for immunity to Aspergillus

(2018) Mark H. T. Stappers et al.   NATURE

Systematic Dissection of the Evolutionarily Conserved WetA Developmental Regulator across a Genus of Filamentous Fungi

(2018) Ming-Yueh Wu et al.   mBio

A possible role for fumagillin in cellular damage during host infection by Aspergillus fumigatus

(2018) Xabier Guruceaga et al.   Virulence

Macrophages inhibit Aspergillus fumigatus germination and neutrophil-mediated fungal killing

(2018) Emily E. Rosowski et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Fungal secondary metabolism: regulation, function and drug discovery

(2018) Nancy P. Keller   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Melanins in fungi: Types, localization and putative biological roles

(2017) Andrea Vanesa Toledo et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL AND MOLECULAR PLANT PATHOLOGY

Aspergillus Cell Wall Melanin Blocks LC3-Associated Phagocytosis to Promote Pathogenicity

(2016) Tonia Akoumianaki et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

TheAspergillus fumigatusconidial melanin production is regulated by the bifunctional bHLH DevR and MADS-box RlmA transcription factors

(2016) Vito Valiante et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Aspergillus fumigatus Photobiology Illuminates the Marked Heterogeneity between Isolates

(2016) Kevin K. Fuller et al.   mBio

Interactions between Melanin Enzymes and Their Atypical Recruitment to the Secretory Pathway by Palmitoylation

(2016) Srijana Upadhyay et al.   mBio

Subcellular Compartmentalization and Trafficking of the Biosynthetic Machinery for Fungal Melanin

(2016) Srijana Upadhyay et al.   Cell Reports

Ecology of aspergillosis: insights into the pathogenic potency ofAspergillus fumigatusand some otherAspergillusspecies

(2016) Caroline Paulussen et al.   Microbial Biotechnology

Melanins Protect Sporothrix brasiliensis and Sporothrix schenckii from the Antifungal Effects of Terbinafine

(2016) Rodrigo Almeida-Paes et al.   PLoS One

Molecular and physiological effects of environmental UV radiation on fungal conidia

(2015) Gilberto U. L. Braga et al.   CURRENT GENETICS

Virulence determinants of the human pathogenic fungusAspergillus fumigatusprotect against soil amoeba predation

(2015) Falk Hillmann et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Identification ofAspergillus fumigatusSurface Components That Mediate Interaction of Conidia and Hyphae With Human Platelets

(2015) Günter Rambach et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Aspergillus fumigatus transcriptome response to a higher temperature during the earliest steps of germination monitored using a new customized expression microarray

(2015) Mónica Sueiro-Olivares et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Serum tryptophan, kynurenine, phenylalanine, tyrosine and neopterin concentrations in 100 healthy blood donors

(2015) Simon Geisler et al.   PTERIDINES

Intracellular Growth Is Dependent on Tyrosine Catabolism in the Dimorphic Fungal Pathogen Penicillium marneffei

(2015) Kylie J. Boyce et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Surface Structure Characterization of Aspergillus fumigatus Conidia Mutated in the Melanin Synthesis Pathway and Their Human Cellular Immune Response

(2014) Jagadeesh Bayry et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Melanin dependent survival of Apergillus fumigatus conidia in lung epithelial cells

(2014) Shayista Amin et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Aspergillus Cell Wall and Biofilm

(2014) Anne Beauvais et al.   MYCOPATHOLOGIA

Aspergillus fumigatus and Related Species

(2014) J. A. Sugui et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Corticosteroids Block Autophagy Protein Recruitment in Aspergillus fumigatus Phagosomes via Targeting Dectin-1/Syk Kinase Signaling

(2013) I. Kyrmizi et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Pulmonary immune responses toAspergillus fumigatusin an immunocompetent mouse model of repeated exposures

(2013) Amanda D. Buskirk et al.   Journal of Immunotoxicology

Aspergillus fumigatus melanins: interference with the host endocytosis pathway and impact on virulence

(2013) Thorsten Heinekamp et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biosynthesis and Functions of a Melanoid Pigment Produced by Species of the Sporothrix Complex in the Presence of l-Tyrosine

(2012) Rodrigo Almeida-Paes et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Deciphering cell wall integrity signalling in Aspergillus fumigatus: identification and functional characterization of cell wall stress sensors and relevant Rho GTPases

(2012) Karl Dichtl et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Synthesis and assembly of fungal melanin

(2011) Helene C. Eisenman et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Phagocytosis of melanized Aspergillus conidia by macrophages exerts cytoprotective effects by sustained PI3K/Akt signalling

(2011) Katrin Volling et al.   CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Secretome analysis of Aspergillus fumigatus reveals Asp-hemolysin as a major secreted protein

(2011) Dirk Wartenberg et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

The MAP kinase MpkA controls cell wall integrity, oxidative stress response, gliotoxin production and iron adaptation in Aspergillus fumigatus

(2011) Radhika Jain et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

The Temporal Dynamics of Differential Gene Expression in Aspergillus fumigatus Interacting with Human Immature Dendritic Cells In Vitro

(2011) Charles O. Morton et al.   PLoS One

Pyomelanin Formation in Aspergillus fumigatus Requires HmgX and the Transcriptional Activator HmgR but Is Dispensable for Virulence

(2011) Sophia Keller et al.   PLoS One

Conidial Dihydroxynaphthalene Melanin of the Human Pathogenic Fungus Aspergillus fumigatus Interferes with the Host Endocytosis Pathway

(2011) Andreas Thywißen et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

What makes Aspergillus fumigatus a successful pathogen? Genes and molecules involved in invasive aspergillosis

(2010) Ana Abad et al.   REVISTA IBEROAMERICANA DE MICOLOGIA

Melanin is an essential component for the integrity of the cell wall of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia

(2009) Marc Pihet et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

The MpkA MAP kinase module regulates cell wall integrity signaling and pyomelanin formation in Aspergillus fumigatus

(2009) Vito Valiante et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Aspergillus fumigatus Conidial Melanin Modulates Host Cytokine Response

(2009) Louis Y.A. Chai et al.   IMMUNOBIOLOGY

Conidiation Color Mutants of Aspergillus fumigatus Are Highly Pathogenic to the Heterologous Insect Host Galleria mellonella

(2009) Jennifer C. Jackson et al.   PLoS One

Production of Pyomelanin, a Second Type of Melanin, via the Tyrosine Degradation Pathway in Aspergillus fumigatus

(2008) J. Schmaler-Ripcke et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genes Differentially Expressed in Conidia and Hyphae of Aspergillus fumigatus upon Exposure to Human Neutrophils

(2008) Janyce A. Sugui et al.   PLoS One

Sub-Telomere Directed Gene Expression during Initiation of Invasive Aspergillosis

(2008) Andrew McDonagh et al.   PLoS Pathogens