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APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 77, 期 11, 页码 3669-3675出版社
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02000-10
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences [PO1GM084077]
- NIH [R01 AI065728-S1]
Secondary metabolite (SM) production by fungi is hypothesized to provide some fitness attribute for the producing organisms. However, most SM clusters are silent when fungi are grown in traditional laboratory settings, and it is difficult to ascertain any function or activity of these SM cluster products. Recently, the creation of a chromatin remodeling mutant in Aspergillus nidulans induced activation of several cryptic SM gene clusters. Systematic testing of nine purified metabolites from this mutant identified an emodin derivate with efficacy against both human fungal pathogens (inhibiting both spore germination and hyphal growth) and several bacteria. The ability of catalase to diminish this antimicrobial activity implicates reactive oxygen species generation, specifically, the generation of hydrogen peroxide, as the mechanism of emodin hydroxyl activity.
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