Mucormycosis in 2023: An update on pathogenesis and management

A Alqarihi, DP Kontoyiannis, AS Ibrahim - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mucormycosis (MCR) is an emerging and frequently lethal fungal infection caused by the
Mucorales family, with Rhizopus, Mucor, and Lichtheimia, accounting for> 90% of all cases …

Mucorales and Mucormycosis: Recent Insights and Future Prospects

G Tahiri, C Lax, JT Cánovas-Márquez, P Carrillo-Marín… - Journal of Fungi, 2023 - mdpi.com
The classification of Mucorales encompasses a collection of basal fungi that have
traditionally demonstrated an aversion to modern genetic manipulation techniques. This …

Biotechnological production of lycopene by microorganisms

L Li, Z Liu, H Jiang, X Mao - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2020 - Springer
Lycopene is a dark red carotenoid belonging to C40 terpenoids and is widely found in a
variety of plants, especially ripe red fruits and vegetables. Lycopene has been shown to …

On the remarkable nonlinear optical properties of natural tomato lycopene

N Numan, S Jeyaram, K Kaviyarasu, P Neethling… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
In line with the renewed interest in developing novel Non Linear Optical (NLO) materials,
natural Lycopene's NLO Properties are reported for the first time within the scientific …

Lycopene: Progress in microbial production

A Hernández-Almanza, J Montanez, G Martínez… - Trends in Food Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Carotenoids are an important group of natural and liposoluble pigments found
in plants and microorganisms, displaying yellow, orange or red color. They act as membrane …

Stable and reproducible homologous recombination enables CRISPR-based engineering in the fungus Rhizopus microsporus

C Lax, MI Navarro-Mendoza, C Pérez-Arques… - Cell Reports …, 2021 - cell.com
Mucormycosis is a lethal and emerging disease that has lacked a genetic model fulfilling
both high virulence and the possibility of performing stable and reproducible gene …

Multicopy integrants of crt genes and co-expression of AMP deaminase improve lycopene production in Yarrowia lipolytica

XK Zhang, MY Nie, J Chen, LJ Wei, Q Hua - Journal of biotechnology, 2019 - Elsevier
Lycopene has been broadly studied in recent decades due to its health benefits including
cancer prevention, anti-atherogenic and anti-obesity effects, and modulation of the immune …

Metabolic engineering of different microbial hosts for lycopene production

M Li, Q Xia, H Zhang, R Zhang… - Journal of Agricultural and …, 2020 - ACS Publications
As a result of the extensive use of lycopene in a variety of fields, especially the dietary
supplement and health food industries, the production of lycopene has attracted …

Critical applications of Mucor circinelloides within a biorefinery context

CE Rodrigues Reis, HBS Bento… - Critical reviews in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The establishment of an efficient and feasible biorefinery model depends on, among other
factors, particularly the selection of the most appropriate microorganism. Mucor …

Increase of lycopene production by supplementing auxiliary carbon sources in metabolically engineered Escherichia coli

YS Kim, JH Lee, NH Kim, SJ Yeom, SW Kim… - Applied microbiology and …, 2011 - Springer
In the fed-batch culture of glycerol using a metabolically engineered strain of Escherichia
coli, supplementation with glucose as an auxiliary carbon source increased lycopene …