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Melanin, Radiation, and Energy Transduction in Fungi.
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45 citing papers in PubMed, 93 citations in OpenAlex.
- Carbon and nitrogen availability affects biofilm growth and morphology of the extremotolerant fungusApplied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Evolutionary Reorganization of Transcriptomic Architecture Across a UVB Tolerance Gradient in Fish.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Radiation-Resistant Microbes: Pioneers for Life Beyond Earth.Current microbiology · 2026Review
- Genomic and Ecological Flexibility Shape the Global Distribution of a Black Fungus.Environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Melanin and Neuromelanin in Humans: Insights Across Health, Aging, Diseases, and Unexpected Aspects of Fungal Melanogenesis.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Meeting report of the eight annual Tri-Service Microbiome Consortium Symposium.BMC proceedings · 2025Article
- From the Ground to the Clinic: The Evolution and Adaptation of Fungi.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Fungal Melanin in Plant Pathogens: Complex Biosynthesis Pathways and Diverse Biological Functions.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Fungal Metabolomics: A Comprehensive Approach to Understanding Pathogenesis in Humans and Identifying Potential Therapeutics.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Genomic features of lichen-associated black fungi.IUBMB life · 2025Article
- Ionizing radiation resilience: how metabolically active lichens endure exposure to the simulated Mars atmosphere.IMA fungus · 2025Article
- Melanin in fungi: advances in structure, biosynthesis, regulation, and metabolic engineering.Microbial cell factories · 2024Review
- Production and characterization of melanin pigment from black fungus Curvularia soli AS21 ON076460 assisted gamma rays for promising medical uses.Microbial cell factories · 2024Article
- Molecular characterization of non-Current medical mycology · 2024Article
- Analysis of Nuclear Dynamics in Nematode-Trapping Fungi Based on Fluorescent Protein Labeling.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Deficiency of ChPks and ChThr1 Inhibited DHN-Melanin Biosynthesis, Disrupted Cell Wall Integrity and Attenuated Pathogenicity inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Two zinc finger proteins, VdZFP1 and VdZFP2, interact with VdCmr1 to promote melanized microsclerotia development and stress tolerance in Verticillium dahliae.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Towards the microbial home: An overview of developments in next-generation sustainable architecture.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
- Sporothrix globosa melanin regulates autophagy via the TLR2 signaling pathway in THP-1 macrophages.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
- Prominent Roles and Conflicted Attitudes of Eumelanin in the Living World.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Melanin pigments are found in many diverse fungal species, where they serve a variety of functions that promote fitness and cell survival. Melanotic fungi inhabit some of the most extreme habitats on earth such as the damaged nuclear reactor at Chernobyl and the highlands of Antarctica, both of which are high-radiation environments. Melanotic fungi migrate toward radioactive sources, which appear to enhance their growth. This phenomenon, combined with the known capacities of melanin to absorb a broad spectrum of electromagnetic radiation and transduce this radiation into other forms of energy, raises the possibility that melanin also functions in harvesting such energy for biological usage. The ability of melanotic fungi to harness electromagnetic radiation for physiological processes has enormous implications for biological energy flows in the biosphere and for exobiology, since it provides new mechanisms for survival in extraterrestrial conditions. Whereas some features of the way melanin-related energy transduction works can be discerned by linking various observations and circumstantial data, the mechanistic details remain to be discovered.
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