The discovery of biopigments has received considerable attention from the industrial sector, mainly for potential applications as novel molecules with biological activity, in cosmetics or if aquaculture food supplements. main objective this study was to increase production carotenoid pigments a naturally pigmented yeast by subjecting various cellular stresses using design experiments. fungal st...

Na Tian, Guoxian Wei, Detlef Schuppan, and Eva J. Helmerhorst Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Division of Gastroenterology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Institute of Translational Immunology and Research Center for Immunology (FZI), University Medical Center, ...

Onychomycosis is a fungal infection of nail, its matrix, and other nail parts which is usually caused by dermatophytes. However number of nail infections due to yeast and nondermatophyte moulds (NDM) is also increasing. Although Candida albicans accounts for most of the cases of onychomycosis caused by yeasts, there has been a change in the epidemiology of Candida infections, characterized by a...

The red yeast Rhodotorula mucilaginosa produced an esterase that accumulated in the culture supernatant on induction with triacetin. The enzyme was specific for substrates bearing an O-acetyl group, but was relatively nonspecific for the rest of the molecule, which could consist of a phenol, a monosaccharide, a polysaccharide, or an aliphatic alcohol. The esterase was more active against acetyl...