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Laura Marina Franco-Herrera

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Review Open access Feb 2026

Are hyaluronic acid synthases widely encoded in fungi?

Hyaluronic acid (HA) is a biologically versatile polysaccharide synthesized by vertebrates and several microbial pathogens. To date, Cryptococcus neoformans CPS1p is the only reported hyaluronic acid synthase (HAS) in fungi, which is functionally related to bacterial HASs. Considering the phylogenetic and biochemical c...

Mariandrea Aranda-Barba, Laura Marina Franco-Herrera, Paul Montaño-Silva et al. · 0 citations

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