Antifungal activity of transferrin
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Medical Mycology
- Vol. 17 (1) , 79-83
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00362177985380101
Abstract
Inhibitory effects of transferrin on fungal growth were sucessfully estimated by measuring fungal ATP content. By this method, it was demonstrated that both human and rabbit transferrin possessed the inhibitory effect in the absence of any other factor on yeast-like and filamentous fungi. However, rabbit stimulation factor enhanced the inhibitory effect. The inhibitory effect of transferrin was nonspecific and correlated with unsaturated iron binding capacity (UIBC) of transferrin. Human transferrin was more inhibitory than rabbit transferrin.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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