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Antioxidant function of fungal melanin.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Nov 1993
Jacobson E S, Tinnell S B
Abstract excerpt
Polyphenols have been implicated in the virulence and oxidant resistance of Cryptococcus neoformans. Although monomeric polyphenols did not protect against the prooxidant, plumbagin, polymeric dopamine-melanin conferred resistance both to hypochlorite and to permanganate. The physiologic antioxidant capacity conferred by melanin was found to be 21.3 x 10(-15) mole-equivalents per cell, a value which approximates...
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