Oxidative Stress Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans

D Slade, M Radman - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
Deinococcus radiodurans is a robust bacterium best known for its capacity to repair massive
DNA damage efficiently and accurately. It is extremely resistant to many DNA-damaging …

[HTML][HTML] Passive antibody therapy for infectious diseases

A Casadevall, E Dadachova, L Pirofski - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2004 - nature.com
Antibody-based therapies are currently undergoing a renaissance. After being developed
and then largely abandoned in the twentieth century, many antibody preparations are now in …

[HTML][HTML] An insight into the antifungal pipeline: selected new molecules and beyond

L Ostrosky-Zeichner, A Casadevall… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2010 - nature.com
Invasive fungal infections are increasing in incidence and are associated with substantial
mortality. Improved diagnostics and the availability of new antifungals have revolutionized …

Ionizing radiation: how fungi cope, adapt, and exploit with the help of melanin

E Dadachova, A Casadevall - Current opinion in microbiology, 2008 - Elsevier
Life on Earth has always existed in the flux of ionizing radiation. However, fungi seem to
interact with the ionizing radiation differently from other inhabitants of the Earth. Recent data …

Monoclonal antibody-based therapies for microbial diseases

C Saylor, E Dadachova, A Casadevall - Vaccine, 2009 - Elsevier
The monoclonal antibody (mAb) revolution that currently provides many new options for the
treatment of neoplastic and inflammatory diseases has largely bypassed the field of …

The radioprotective properties of fungal melanin are a function of its chemical composition, stable radical presence and spatial arrangement

E Dadachova, RA Bryan, RC Howell… - Pigment cell & …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Melanized microorganisms are often found in environments with very high background
radiation levels such as in nuclear reactor cooling pools and the destroyed reactor in …

The effects of natural variation in background radioactivity on humans, animals and other organisms

AP Møller, TA Mousseau - Biological Reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Natural levels of radioactivity on the Earth vary by more than a thousand‐fold; this spatial
heterogeneity may suffice to create heterogeneous effects on physiology, mutation and …

[HTML][HTML] Programmed cell death in pathogenic fungi

M Ramsdale - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2008 - Elsevier
Greater understanding of programmed cell death (PCD) responses in pathogenic fungi may
offer a chance of exploiting the fungal molecular death machinery to control fungal …

Recent research trends on bismuth compounds in cancer chemo-and radiotherapy

M Kowalik, J Masternak… - Current medicinal …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Application of coordination chemistry in nanotechnology is a rapidly
developing research field in medicine. Bismuth complexes have been widely used in …

Antibodies in infectious diseases: polyclonals, monoclonals and niche biotechnology

JD Berry, RG Gaudet - New biotechnology, 2011 - Elsevier
Antibody preparations have a long history of providing protection from infectious diseases.
Although antibodies remain the only natural host-derived defense mechanism capable of …