Patent ID: 8383110

Claim:
A method of inhibiting hypha-inducing activity of muramyl-L-alanine, comprising: contacting a yeast with an antagonist that inhibits the hypha-inducing activity of the muramyl-L-alanine, inhibits the hypha-inducing activity of a compound that has muramyl-L-alanine in its core structure, or inhibits the hypha-inducing activity of muramyl-L-alanine and a compound that has muramyl-L-alanine in its core structure in an amount effective to inhibit the hypha-inducing activity of the muramyl-L-alanine, to inhibit the hypha-inducing activity of the compound that has muramyl-L-alanine in its core structure, or to inhibit the hypha-inducing activity of muramyl-L-alanine and the compound that has muramyl-L-alanine in its core structure, respectively.