Reposted by Alicia Maciá
New paper out by @aliciamv.bsky.social 🤩🥳
…where we study the yeast-based antifungal compound and iron-chelator pulcherriminic acid
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Pulcherriminic acid Biosynthesis and Transport: Insights from a heterologous system in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Abstract. Pulcherriminic acid is an iron chelator produced by some Kluyveromyces and Metschnikowia yeasts. Its biosynthesis is encoded by the four–gene PUL