Using solid-state NMR to monitor the molecular consequences of cryptococcus neoformans melanization with different catecholamine precursors

Biochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 6080-6088

  Chatterjee, Subhasish ^a   Prados Rosales, Rafael ^b   Frases, Susana ^b,d   Itin, Boris ^c   Casadevall, Arturo ^b   Stark, Ruth E ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CELL-FREE CONDITIONS; CELLULAR ASSEMBLIES; CELLULAR CONSTITUENTS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG DISCOVERY; ENERGY TRANSDUCTION; MIMETICS; MOLECULAR ARCHITECTURE; MOLECULAR CONSTITUENTS; NATURAL PIGMENT; NEOFORMANS; PATHOGENIC FUNGI; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SOLID STATE NMR; SOLID STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; STRUCTURAL HETEROGENEITY; TUMOR THERAPY;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOPOLYMERS; DRUG THERAPY; MAGIC ANGLE SPINNING; SUN;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ADRENALIN; ALIPHATIC COMPOUND; AROMATIC COMPOUND; BIOPOLYMER; CATECHOLAMINE; FATTY ACID; LEVODOPA; LEVODOPA METHYL ESTER; NORADRENALIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SOLID STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CATECHOLAMINES; CELL WALL; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL POLYSACCHARIDES; INDOLES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MELANINS;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 84864657771     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi300325m     Document Type: Article

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