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Journal of Fungi, Volume 8, Issue 4

April 2022 - 93 articles

Cover Story: Mucormycosis is a life-threatening disease caused by Mucoromycota species such as Rhizopus delemar. Mucormycosis is most effectively treated with amphotericin B (AmB) and particularly with AmB-loaded liposomes (AmB-LLs). However, even after treatment, there is still a 50% mortality rate. We used the pathogen receptor Dectin-1 to target AmB-LLs to R. delemar. DEC1-AmB-LLs bound with great efficiency to exopolysaccharide matrices associated with sporangiospores, germlings, and mature hyphae. DEC1-AmB-LLs delivering sub-micromolar concentrations of AmB were an order of magnitude more efficient at inhibiting or killing R. delemar than AmB-LLs. The cover image shows rhodamine B-tagged DEC1-AmB-LLs (red) that are bound to calcofluor white-stained R. delemar germlings (green). View this paper
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Articles (93)

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
3,590 Views
18 Pages

15 April 2022

Wood-inhabiting fungi are a cosmopolitan group and show a rich diversity, growing in the vegetation of boreal, temperate, subtropical, and tropical regions. Xylodon grandineus, X. punctus, and X. wenshanensis spp. nov. were found in the Yunnan–...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,636 Views
11 Pages

Differential Gene Expression of Mucor lusitanicus under Aerobic and Anaerobic Conditions

  • Mónika Homa,
  • Sandugash Ibragimova,
  • Csilla Szebenyi,
  • Gábor Nagy,
  • Nóra Zsindely,
  • László Bodai,
  • Csaba Vágvölgyi,
  • Gábor Nagy and
  • Tamás Papp

15 April 2022

Mucor lusitanicus and some other members of the fungal order Mucorales display the phenomenon of morphological dimorphism. This means that these fungi aerobically produce filamentous hyphae, developing a coenocytic mycelium, but they grow in a multip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,875 Views
13 Pages

Evaluation of the Antifungal Activities of Photorhabdus akhurstii and Its Secondary Metabolites against Phytopathogenic Colletotrichum gloeosporioides

  • Po-Wen Tu,
  • Jie-Siang Chiu,
  • Chih Lin,
  • Chih-Cheng Chien,
  • Feng-Chia Hsieh,
  • Ming-Che Shih and
  • Yu-Liang Yang

15 April 2022

Colletotrichum gloeosporioides is a phytopathogenic fungus that causes devastating losses in strawberries without effective countermeasures. Members of the genus Photorhabdus exhibit antimicrobial capability and have been found to have the potential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,867 Views
14 Pages

Production of Microsclerotia by Metarhizium sp., and Factors Affecting Their Survival, Germination, and Conidial Yield

  • Meelad Yousef-Yousef,
  • Antonia Romero-Conde,
  • Enrique Quesada-Moraga and
  • Inmaculada Garrido-Jurado

14 April 2022

Microsclerotia (MS) produced by some species of Metarhizium can be used as active ingredients in mycoinsecticides for the control of soil-dwelling stages of geophilic pests. In this study, the MS production potential of two Metarhizium brunneum strai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,427 Views
16 Pages

FFGA1 Protein Is Essential for Regulating Vegetative Growth, Cell Wall Integrity, and Protection against Stress in Flammunina filiformis

  • Muyun Du,
  • Yongbo Xie,
  • Meng Wang,
  • Huan Yang,
  • Banghui Hu,
  • Irum Mukhtar,
  • Yuanyuan Liu,
  • Yongxin Tao,
  • Fang Liu and
  • Baogui Xie

14 April 2022

Flammulina filiformis is a popular mushroom which has been regarded as a potential model fungus for mycelium growth, fruiting body development, and stress response studies. Based on a genome-wide search, four genes encoding heterotrimeric G protein α...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,739 Views
13 Pages

Efficacy of LD Bio Aspergillus ICT Lateral Flow Assay for Serodiagnosis of Chronic Pulmonary Aspergillosis

  • Animesh Ray,
  • Mohit Chowdhury,
  • Janya Sachdev,
  • Prayas Sethi,
  • Ved Prakash Meena,
  • Gagandeep Singh,
  • Immaculata Xess,
  • Surabhi Vyas,
  • Maroof Ahmad Khan and
  • Sanjeev Sinha
  • + 3 authors

14 April 2022

Background: The diagnosis of CPA relies on the detection of the IgG Aspergillus antibody, which is not freely available, especially in resource-poor settings. Point-of-care tests like LDBio Aspergillus ICT lateral flow assay, evaluated in only a few...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,785 Views
12 Pages

Thermo-Mechanical and Fungi Treatment as an Alternative Lignin Degradation Method for Bambusa oldhamii and Guadua angustifolia Fibers

  • Luis Garzón,
  • Jorge I. Fajardo,
  • Román Rodriguez-Maecker,
  • Ernesto Delgado Fernández and
  • Darío Cruz

14 April 2022

Different strategies have been used to degrade the molecular structure of lignins in natural fibers. Both chemical and biological processes can obtain different types of lignins for industrial use. In this study, a variation of the spectral intensity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,850 Views
17 Pages

Morpho-Molecular Evidence Reveals Four Novel Species of Gymnopus (Agaricales, Omphalotaceae) from China

  • Ji-Peng Li,
  • Mei-Chen Pan,
  • Yi Li,
  • Chun-Ying Deng,
  • Xiao-Min Wang,
  • Bang-Xi Zhang,
  • Chang-Tian Li and
  • Yu Li

13 April 2022

Nine collections of gymnopoid fungi were studied based on morpho-molecular characteristics. The macromorphology was made according to the photograph of fresh basidiomata and field notes, while the micromorphology was examined via an optical microscop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,571 Views
23 Pages

Unique and Repeated Stwintrons (Spliceosomal Twin Introns) in the Hypoxylaceae

  • Erzsébet Fekete,
  • Fruzsina Pénzes,
  • Norbert Ág,
  • Viktória Ág-Rácz,
  • Erzsébet Sándor,
  • Claudio Scazzocchio,
  • Michel Flipphi and
  • Levente Karaffa

13 April 2022

Introns are usually non-coding sequences interrupting open reading frames in pre-mRNAs [D1,2]. Stwintrons are nested spliceosomal introns, where an internal intron splits a second donor sequence into two consecutive splicing reactions leading to matu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,777 Views
16 Pages

Mycosynthesis, Characterization, and Mosquitocidal Activity of Silver Nanoparticles Fabricated by Aspergillus niger Strain

  • Mohamed A. Awad,
  • Ahmed M. Eid,
  • Tarek M. Y. Elsheikh,
  • Zarraq E. Al-Faifi,
  • Nadia Saad,
  • Mahmoud H. Sultan,
  • Samy Selim,
  • Areej A. Al-Khalaf and
  • Amr Fouda

13 April 2022

Herein, silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) were synthesized using an environmentally friendly approach by harnessing the metabolites of Aspergillus niger F2. The successful formation of Ag-NPs was checked by a color change to yellowish-brown, followed by...

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