Fungi type cultures

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For the screening, 25 microbial cultures, obtained from the University of Mississippi Department of Pharmacognosy culture collection, were used. Microbial bioconversion studies of sarcophine (45) showed that it can be metabolized by several fungi species. Preparative-scale fermentation with Absidia glauca American-type culture collection (ATCC) 22752, Rhizopus arrhizus ATCC 11145, and R. stolonifer ATCC 24795 resulted in the isolation... 

Many species of Monascus fungi are readily available to the public from several institutes having culture collections such as the American Type Culture Center (ATCC) in the United States, the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation Biological Resource Center (NBRC) in Japan, and the Food Industry Research and Development Institute in Taiwan assigned with "CCRC" prefix. 

Fungi/Yeasts Seventeenth Edition, 1987" Jong, S.C. Gantt, M.J. Eds. American Type Culture Collection, Maryland. 1987 pp. 4-29 ... 

Catalogue of Fungi/Yeasts, 17 ed. With an index to the industrial applications. American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, MD, 1987. 

Number and taxonomical coordination of fungi (divisions, classes) available from international type culture collections which have been used for hydroxylation reactions. 

Catalogue of Filamentous Fungi. Jong SC, Edwards M), eds. Rockeville American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) 18th ed. 1991 75. 

Because lichen fungi grow slowly, cultures can be kept for months or even several years before they are transferred. Vegetative mycelia have been lyophilized successfully and stock cultures of representative lichen fungi are being maintained by the American Type Culture Collection, 12301 Park-lawn Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

The fungi Aspergillus ochraceus (Yamazaki et al., 1971) and P. oxalicum (Steyn, 1970) from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) were then examined systematically for their capability to produce ergochrome D (Franck et al., 1978). One strain of P. oxalicum (ATCC 10476), grown on sterilized, unpeeled rice as nutrient, reliably produced sufficient secalonic acid D (2), differing in this respect from two related strains (ATCC 1126 and 16501). As was shown by trial experiments, labeled precursors were incorporated by fungi on this solid nutrient, which becomes completely intermingled with mycelium, at the same rate as on liquid cultures. The examined strain of A. ochraceus (ATCC 18641) yielded no secalonic acid D (2) on a variety of solid and liquid nutrients. 

Like fungi, however, actinomycetes display extensive mycelial branching, and both types of microorganisms form aerial mycelia and conidia. Moreover, growth of actinomycetes in liquid culture tends to produce fungus-like clumps or pellets rather than the turbidity produced by bacteria. Finally, growth rates in fungi and actinomycetes are not exponential as they are in bacteria rather, they are cubic [35,42]. 

In various types of bacteriological cellulose fermentations, large-scale reduction of sugar takes place. Relevant facts as well as the older literature can be found in an article by Neuberg and Cohen, while the metabolism of wood-destroying fungi is treated by Nord and Sciarini. Butyric acid and other products of reduction probably are formed as in butyl fermentations. Definite results with pure cultures are hardly available from most of the early papers. 

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