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Coming up for air and sporulation

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  • Nicholas J. Talbot

    (the School of Biological Sciences, University of Exeter, Washington Singer Laboratories)

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Fungi and mushrooms live in damp environments but need to escape from such watery backgrounds and grow up into the air in order to sporulate. It turns out that the fungus does this with the help of masses of small proteins known as hydrophobins: these cause the surface tension of the aqueous medium to drop so that the fungal hypha can readily push its way out into the air.

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  • Nicholas J. Talbot, 1999. "Coming up for air and sporulation," Nature, Nature, vol. 398(6725), pages 295-296, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:398:y:1999:i:6725:d:10.1038_18575
    DOI: 10.1038/18575
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    1. Zhuozhi Chen & Rongdi Duan & Yunjie Xiao & Yi Wei & Hanxiao Zhang & Xinzhao Sun & Shen Wang & Yingying Cheng & Xue Wang & Shanwei Tong & Yunxiao Yao & Cheng Zhu & Haitao Yang & Yanyan Wang & Zefang Wa, 2022. "Biodegradation of highly crystallized poly(ethylene terephthalate) through cell surface codisplay of bacterial PETase and hydrophobin," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-17, December.

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