{
  "id": 1951181,
  "title": "Intrinsic antifungal activity of curli nanofibers expands the design space for programmable antimicrobial biomaterials",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/intrinsic-antifungal-activity-of-curli-nanofibers-expands-the-design",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-19T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.18.745637v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The rise of antifungal resistance and limited antifungal drug classes creates an urgent need for biomaterials with localized, programmable activity. Here, we engineered curli nanofibers displaying the antifungal peptide heliomicin and unexpectedly discovered that wild-type CsgA itself exhibits intrinsic antifungal activity against Candida albicans, reducing fungal viability by approximately 2 log…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}