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Fungal melanins that deteriorate paper cultural heritage: An overview
- Source :
- Mycologia. 112:859-870
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2020.
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Abstract
- Paper-based works of art and documents of cultural importance kept in museums and libraries can show notorious signs of deterioration, including foxing stains, caused by fungal colonization. Some of the main chromophore agents of fungal origin that deteriorate paper and therefore affect paper cultural heritage both aesthetically and structurally are the group of pigments called melanins. Thus, knowledge of the diversity and features of fungal melanins and of the melanization pathways of fungi growing on paper is key to removing these pigments from paper-based works of cultural importance. This review provides an approach about the current knowledge of melanins synthesized by paper-colonizing fungi, their localization in the fungal structures, and their role in the deterioration of paper. This knowledge might contribute to developing new, effective, and sustainable strategies of restoration and conservation of historical documents and works of art based on paper.
- Subjects :
- Paper
0106 biological sciences
Physiology
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Biology
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
030308 mycology & parasitology
03 medical and health sciences
Fungal Structures
Genetics
Fungal colonization
Library Materials
Molecular Biology
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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Melanins
0303 health sciences
Museums
Foxing
Fungi
Environmental ethics
Pigments, Biological
Cell Biology
General Medicine
Cultural heritage
Art
Diversity (politics)
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15572536 and 00275514
- Volume :
- 112
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Mycologia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....638f86e4b8ad8571b4af907aa5e01034