Following fungal melanin biosynthesis with solid-state NMR: Biopolymer molecular structures and possible connections to cell-wall polysaccharides

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4701-4710

  Zhong, Junyan ^a   Frases, Susana ^b   Wang, Hsin ^a,c   Casadevall, Arturo ^b   Stark, Ruth E ^a,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMERS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CROSSLINKING; FUNGI; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLYSACCHARIDES;

ALIPHATIC GROUPS; MELANIN; POLYMER CHAIN ELONGATION;

PIGMENTS;

BIOPOLYMER; GLUCOSE; LEVODOPA; MANNOSE; MELANIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; SOLVENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL WALL; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYCLIZATION; DEGRADATION; DIALYSIS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; MELANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE;

BIOPOLYMERS; CELL WALL; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ESTERS; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; INDOLES; LEVODOPA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MELANINS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PHENOL; POLYSACCHARIDES;

ANIMALIA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 42349092473     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi702093r     Document Type: Article

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