Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Molecular architecture of fungal cell walls revealed by solid-state NMR

  • Xue Kang,
  • Alex Kirui,
  • Artur Muszyński,
  • Malitha C. Dickwella Widanage,
  • Adrian Chen,
  • Parastoo Azadi,
  • Ping Wang,
  • Frederic Mentink-Vigier,
  • Tuo Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05199-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Aspergillus fumigatus is a pathogenic fungus. Here the authors perform solid-state NMR measurements with intact Aspergillus cells, which provides insights into cell wall composition and dynamics and propose a structural model for fungal cell walls.