The new chitosan deacetylase can then also remove these last acetic acid molecules." The suspicion was obvious that only this last step makes the fungus really invisible for the human immune system.

some based on the identification of molecular targets of chitosan, contribute to produce a novel alternative to control fungal diseases and in particular antifungal resistant strains" López ...

Chitosan is an interesting polymer that has been used extensively in the medical field. It is either partially or fully deacetylated chitin. As chitin occurs naturally (in fungal cell walls and ...

It is using fungal chitosan, from the cell walls of oyster mushrooms, as the active ingredient in hair serum. Researchers have found that chitosan, which is already popular in skincare ...

Some might ask: what’s the point of fungal paper when we already get paper from wood? That’s where the other interesting attributes of chitin come into play — or more specifically, the attributes of ...

Proof-of-principle will be reached by the knowledge-based development of a plant biostimulant based on fungal chitosan that will allow significant reductions of chemical inputs in agriculture, ...

The group is testing the efficacy of chitosan, a compound obtained from the hard outer skeleton of shellfish, to limit the growth of WNS—Pseudogymnoascus destructans—on experimentally infected bats.

This is the first study to show the role of cell wall remodeling of chitin to chitosan in a plant-associated symbiotic fungus and helps explain why the plant host fails to elicit any major host ...

This produces a chitosan, which is invisible to the immune system. A particularly aggressive fungus, Cryptococcus neoformans, which can easily lead to a fatal infection, particularly in ...

Proof-of-principle will be reached by the knowledge-based development of a plant biostimulant based on fungal chitosan that will allow significant reductions of chemical inputs in agriculture, ...