Figure 7.

Morphological transition in P. brasiliensis after peptide treatment. The mycelium phase of P. brasiliensis was treated with different concentrations (50 and 100 µg/mL) of each peptide and incubated at 37 °C until the control (without treatment) reached complete conversion to the yeast phase (9 days). Aliquots of each group were analyzed using optical microscopy to discriminate the cell morphology as described by Nunes et al. [38]; H: hyphae, DH: differentiate hyphae, TY: transforming yeasts, and Y: yeasts.