Putative structure and characteristics of a red water-soluble pigment secreted by Penicillium marneffei

Medical Mycology

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 419-427

  Bhardwaj, Sonia ^a   Shukla, Anshuman ^b   Mukherjee, Sourav ^b   Sharma, Swati ^b   Guptasarma, Purnananda ^b   Chakraborti, Asit K ^c   Chakrabarti, Arunaloke ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH NIPER   (India)

Author keywords

Chemistry; Molecular structure; Penicillium marneffei; Pigment

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; PIGMENT;

ACIDITY; AGAR MEDIUM; ALKALINITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DISULFIDE BOND; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HYDROLYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PENICILLIUM; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; SOLUBILITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

FUNGI; PENICILLIUM HERQUEI; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI;

EID: 34547602682     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780701261614     Document Type: Article

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