Author(s): Li W; Feng Y; Feng Z; Wang L; Whiteway M; Lu H; Jiang Y;

Fluconazole (FLC) is extensively employed for the prophylaxis and treatment of invasive fungal infections (IFIs). However, the fungistatic nature of FLC renders pathogenic fungi capable of developing tolerance towards it. Consequently, converting FLC into a fungicidal agent using adjuvants assumes significance to circumvent FLC resistance and the perpetua ...

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Author(s): Logan CJ; Staton CC; Oliver JT; Bouffard J; Kazmirchuk TDD; Magi M; Brett CL;

The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a proven model organism for elucidating conserved eukaryotic biology, but to date its extracellular vesicle (EV) biology is understudied. Here, we show yeast transmit information through the extracellular medium that increases survival when confronted with heat stress and demonstrate the EV-enriched samples me ...

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Author(s): Raheja Y; Singh V; Sharma G; Tsang A; Chadha BS;

The present study reports a highly thermostable ß-glucosidase (GH3) from Rasamsonia emersonii that was heterologously expressed in Pichia pastoris. Extracellular ß-glucosidase was purified to homogeneity using single step affinity chromatography with molecular weight of ~ 110 kDa. Intriguingly, the purified enzyme displayed high tolerance to inhibitors ma ...

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Author(s): Feng Y; Lu H; Whiteway M; Jiang Y;

Fluconazole (FLC) tolerant phenotypes in Candida species contribute to persistent candidemia and the emergence of FLC resistance. Therefore, making FLC fungicidal and eliminating FLC tolerance are important for treating invasive fungal diseases (IFDs) caused by Candida species. However, the mechanisms of FLC tolerance in Candida species remain to be fully ...

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Author(s): Dumeaux V; Massahi S; Bettauer V; Mottola A; Dukovny A; Khurdia SS; Costa ACBP; Omran RP; Simpson S; Xie JL; Whiteway M; Berman J; Hallett MT;

Candida albicans, an opportunistic human pathogen, poses a significant threat to human health and is associated with significant socio-economic burden. Current antifungal treatments fail, at least in part, because C. albicans can initiate a strong drug tolerance response that allows some cells to ...

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Author(s): Lu H; Li W; Whiteway M; Wang H; Zhu S; Ji Z; Feng Y; Yan L; Fang T; Li L; Ni T; Zhang X; Lv Q; Ding Z; Qiu L; Zhang D; Jiang Y;

Fluconazole (FLC) is widely used to prevent and treat invasive fungal infections. However, FLC is a fungistatic agent, allowing clinical FLC-susceptible isolates to tolerate FLC. Making FLC fungicidal in combination with adjuvants is a promising strategy to avoid FLC resistance and eliminate the ...

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Author(s): Silver Z; Abbott-Tate S; Hyland L; Sherratt F; Woodside B; Abizaid A;

Chronic exposure to high circulating glucocorticoid or ghrelin concentrations increases food intake, weight gain and adiposity, suggesting that ghrelin could contribute to the metabolic effects of chronic glucocorticoids. In male mice, however, blocking ghrelin receptor (GHSR) signalling increased the weight gain and adiposity induced by chronic corticost ...

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Author(s): Martins D, McKay GA, English AM, Nguyen D

Stressors and environmental cues shape the physiological state of bacteria, and thus how they subsequently respond to antibiotic toxicity. To understand how superoxide stress can modulate survival to bactericidal antibiotics, we examined the effect of intracellular superoxide generators, paraquat and menadione, on stationary-phase antibiotic tolerance of ...

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Author(s): Lubbers RJM, Liwanag AJ, Peng M, Dilokpimol A, Benoit-Gelber I, de Vries RP

J Appl Microbiol. 2019 Nov 01;: Authors: Lubbers RJM, Liwanag AJ, Peng M, Dilokpimol A, Benoit-Gelber I, de Vries RP

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Author(s): Pinel D, Colatriano D, Jiang H, Lee H, Martin VJ

Biotechnol Biofuels. 2015;8:53 Authors: Pinel D, Colatriano D, Jiang H, Lee H, Martin VJ

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Author(s): Biot-Pelletier D, Pinel D, Larue K, Martin VJJ

Biotechnol Biofuels. 2018;11:282 Authors: Biot-Pelletier D, Pinel D, Larue K, Martin VJJ

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