Search Results - "Graça Contato, Alex"
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Fungal communities differentially respond to warming and drought in tropical grassland soil
Published in Molecular ecology (01-04-2020)“…Climate change is predicted to cause more extreme events, such as heatwaves, and different precipitation patterns. The effects of warming and short‐term…”
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Antiproliferative Activity and Ultrastructural Changes in Promastigote and Amastigote forms of Leishmania amazonensis Caused by Limonene‐Acylthiosemicarbazide Hybrids
Published in Chemistry & biodiversity (01-07-2023)“…Leishmaniasis is a tropical zoonotic disease. It is found in 98 countries, with an estimated 1.3 million people being affected annually. During the life cycle,…”
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Enhancing Laccase Production by Trametes hirsuta GMA-01 Using Response Surface Methodology and Orange Waste: A Novel Breakthrough in Sugarcane Bagasse Saccharification and Synthetic Dye Decolorization
Published in Reactions (Basel, Switzerland) (01-09-2024)“…Trametes hirsuta GMA-01 was cultivated in a culture medium supplemented with orange waste, starch, wheat bran, yeast extract, and salts. The fungus produced…”
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Secretome Analysis of Thermothelomyces thermophilus LMBC 162 Cultivated with Tamarindus indica Seeds Reveals CAZymes for Degradation of Lignocellulosic Biomass
Published in Journal of fungi (Basel) (01-02-2024)“…The analysis of the secretome allows us to identify the proteins, especially carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes), secreted by different microorganisms…”
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Comparative Analysis of CAZymes from Trichoderma longibrachiatum LMBC 172 Cultured with Three Different Carbon Sources: Sugarcane Bagasse, Tamarind Seeds, and Hemicellulose Simulation
Published in Clean technologies (01-09-2024)“…The examination of fungal secretomes has garnered attention for its potential to unveil the repertoire of secreted proteins, notably CAZymes…”
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Prospection of Psychrotrophic Filamentous Fungi Isolated from the High Andean Paramo Region of Northern Ecuador: Enzymatic Activity and Molecular Identification
Published in Microorganisms (Basel) (26-01-2022)“…The isolation of filamentous fungal strains from remote habitats with extreme climatic conditions has led to the discovery of a series of enzymes with…”
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Trichoderma longibrachiatum and thermothelomyces thermophilus co-culture: improvement the saccharification profile of different sugarcane bagasse varieties
Published in Biotechnology letters (01-09-2023)“…Objectives The aim of the present work was to perform the co-culture between Trichoderma longibrachiatum LMBC 172, a mesophilic fungus, with Thermothelomyces…”
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Pleurotus pulmonarius: a protease-producing white rot fungus in lignocellulosic residues
Published in International microbiology (01-01-2023)“…The production of proteases by white rot fungi, such as those of the genus Pleurotus , is related to the degradation of wood proteins, the substrate on which…”
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Thermothelomyces thermophilus cultivated with residues from the fruit pulp industry: enzyme immobilization on ionic supports of a crude cocktail with enhanced production of lichenase
Published in Folia microbiologica (23-10-2024)“…β-Glucans comprise a group of β-D-glucose polysaccharides (glucans) that occur naturally in the cell walls of bacteria, fungi, and cereals. Its degradation is…”
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Effects of multiple climate change factors on exoenzyme activities and CO2 efflux in a tropical grassland
Published in Soil biology & biochemistry (01-09-2020)“…Climate change is expected to affect rainfall dynamics and the global average temperature. Here, we evaluated the effects of those changes, the intense water…”
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Cold-Active Lytic Enzymes and Their Applicability in the Biocontrol of Postharvest Fungal Pathogens
Published in Journal of agricultural and food chemistry (17-06-2020)Get full text
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Application of the white-rot fungus Trametes sp. (C3) laccase in the removal of acetaminophen from aqueous solutions
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Biodegradation of human keratin by protease from the basidiomycete Pleurotus pulmonarius
Published in International biodeterioration & biodegradation (01-02-2018)“…Many microorganisms have been studied for their ability to produce keratinolytic enzymes, among which are basidiomycetes fungi. This paper describes, for the…”
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Challenges of Biomass Utilization for Bioenergy in a Climate Change Scenario
Published in Biology (Basel, Switzerland) (06-12-2021)“…The climate changes expected for the next decades will expose plants to increasing occurrences of combined abiotic stresses, including drought, higher…”
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Enzymatic Pretreatment with Laccases from Lentinus sajor-caju Induces Structural Modification in Lignin and Enhances the Digestibility of Tropical Forage Grass (Panicum maximum) Grown under Future Climate Conditions
Published in International journal of molecular sciences (01-09-2021)“…Since laccase acts specifically in lignin, the major contributor to biomass recalcitrance, this biocatalyst represents an important alternative to the…”
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Biotransformation of Pollutants by Pycnoporus spp. in Submerged and Solid-State Fermentation: Mechanisms, Achievements, and Perspectives
Published in Biomass (Basel, Switzerland) (16-04-2024)“…Substantial amounts of organo-pollutants, often persistent and toxic, are generated globally each year, posing a threat to soil, water, groundwater, and air…”
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Prospection of Fungal Lignocellulolytic Enzymes Produced from Jatoba ( Hymenaea courbaril ) and Tamarind ( Tamarindus indica ) Seeds: Scaling for Bioreactor and Saccharification Profile of Sugarcane Bagasse
Published in Microorganisms (Basel) (05-03-2021)“…The lignocellulosic biomass comprises three main components: cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Degradation and conversion of these three components are…”
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Effects of Cooking and In Vitro Digestion on Antioxidant Properties and Cytotoxicity of the Culinary-Medicinal Mushroom Pleurotus ostreatoroseus (Agaricomycetes)
Published in International journal of medicinal mushrooms (2018)“…In this study we evaluated the antioxidant capacity, antimicrobial activity, and cytotoxicity of an aqueous extract of the Pleurotus ostreatoroseus mushroom,…”
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Solid-state fermentation with orange waste: optimization of Laccase production from Pleurotus pulmonarius CCB-20 and decolorization of synthetic dyes
Published in Acta scientiarum. Biological sciences (2020)“…Laccases are oxidoreductase enzymes that have the ability to oxidize phenolic substrates. Its biotechnological potential has been greatly explored in many…”
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Comparison of Trichoderma longibrachiatum Xyloglucanase Production Using Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) and Jatoba (Hymenaea courbaril) Seeds: Factorial Design and Immobilization on Ionic Supports
Published in Fermentation (Basel) (01-10-2022)“…Xyloglucan (XG) is the predominant hemicellulose in the primary cell wall of superior plants. It has a fundamental role in controlling the stretching and…”
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