Pathogenic roles for fungal melanins

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 708-717

  Jacobson, E S ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERROUS ION; HYDROQUINONE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; MELANIN; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; SEMIQUINONE;

CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL WALL; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENZYME METABOLISM; FUNGUS; GENE MUTATION; HYDROLYSIS; MACROPHAGE; MELANOGENESIS; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PATHOGENESIS; PLANT; POLYMERIZATION; REVIEW; VIRULENCE;

ANIMAL; FUNGI; HUMAN; MELANINS; METALS; MYCOSES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PLANT DISEASES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033783106     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.13.4.708-717.2000     Document Type: Review

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