Fungal strains

In recent years poly(malic acid) has been discovered in several fungal strains, notably in Physarum polyceph-alum [4] and in Aureobasidium sp. [5,6], and have been analysed as being of the j8-type(II) either linear (P. poly-cephalum) or branched (type IV) Aureobasidium sp.). 

Recently, the distribution of 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate decarboxylase has been found in a variety of fungal strains (unpubhshed data), and the carboxylation activity for catechol is confirmed by the reaction using resting cells (or cell-free extract) in the presence of 3M KHCO3. The detailed comparative studies of enzyme structures and catalytic properties between 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate decarboxylase and 3,4-dihyroxybenzoate decarboxylase might explain how the decarboxylases catalyze the regioselective carboxylation of catechol. 

Microorganism Rhizopus sp. 26R, a fungal strain isolated in Thailand which capable of hydrolyzation of raw cassava starch (Figure 1). 

Askenazi, M., Driggers, E.M., Holtzman, D.A. etal. (2003) Integrating transcriptional and metabolite profiles to direct the engineering of lovastatin-producing fungal strains. Nature Biotechnology, 21, 150-156. 

Gianfreda L, Sannino F, Filazzola MT, Leonowicz A (1998) Catalytic behavior and detoxifying ability of a laccase from the fungal strain Cerrena unicolor. J Mol CatBEnz 14 13-23... 

Komillowicz-Kowalska TK, Wrzosek M, Ginalska G, Iglik H, Bancerz R (2006) Identification and application of a new fungal strain Bjerkandera audusta R59 in decolorization of daunomycin wastes. Enz Microbial Technol 38 583-590... 

Moreira MT, Feijoo G, Sierra-Alvarez R, Lema J, Field JA (1997) Biobleaching of oxygen delignified kraft pulp by several white rot fungal strains. J Biotechnol 53 237-251... 

Fig. 1 Chemical structure of synthetic dyes most frequently studied in decolorization experiments by fungal strains...

Obsolete synonyms Endomyces geotrichum and Dipodascus geotrichum d(21 fungal strains), 70% of them belongs to Candida genus... 

Arunachalam, K.D.andLakshmanan, M. Microbial uptake and accumulation of ( C-carbofuran) 1,3-dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-7-benzofurany Imethyl carbamate in twenty fungal strains isolated by miniecosystem studies, BuU. Environ. Contam. Toxicol, 41(1) 127-134, 1988. 

Moreira, M.T. Mieglo, I. Feijoo, G. Lema, J.M. Evaluation of different fungal strains in the decolourisation of synthetic dyes. Biotechnol. Lett. 2000, 22, 1499-1503. 

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