Fusarium strains

Mateo JJ, Mateo R, Hinojo MJ, Llorens A, Jimenez M (2002) Liquid chromatographic determination of toxigenic secondary metabolites produced by Fusarium strains. J Chromatogr A 955 245-256... 

M Herrmann, R Zocher, A Haese. Enniatin production by Fusarium strains and its effect on potato tuber tissue. Appl Env Microbiol 62 393-398, 1996. 

In the nineties a process for the kinetic resolution of pantolactone by enantio-selective hydrolysis was developed by Yamada and coworkers with Fuji Chemical Industries, Japan (now Daiichi Fine Chemical) using the fungus Fusarium oxy-sporum AKU3702 [13]. Like most of the Fusarium strains and strains of the related species Gibberella, Cylindrocarpon, Penicillium, and Aspergillus, Fusarium oxysporum... 

Various groups of mycotoxins produced by Fusarium strains, such as trichothecenes, fumonisins, and ochratoxin A. A database containing 474 fungal metabohtes was compiled by Nielsen and Smedsgaard [99]... 

Within a given Fusarium species, variation in the ability to effect 4-hydroxylation or acetylation at positions 3 and 15 is significant, and the classification of some Fusarium strains in the Discolor Section... 

By using a Fusarium strain known to be an abundant producer of diacetoxyscirpenol, 3-acetylvomitoxin (104) was converted to fusar-enone (132) (299). 

Scott PM, Harwig J, Blanchfield BJ (1980) Screening Fusarium Strains Isolated from Overwintered Canadian Grains for Tiichothecenes. Mycopathologia 72 175... 

Vesonder RE, Ellis JJ, Rohwedder WK (1981) Swine Refusal Factors Elaborated by Fusarium Strains and Identified as Trichothecenes. Appl Environ Microbiol 41 323... 

Vesonder RF, Ciegler A, Jenson AH (1977) Production of Refusal Factors by Fusarium Strains on Grains. Appl Environ Microbiol 34 105... 

Mule G, Eogrieco A, Stea G, Bottalico A (1997) Clustering of Trichothecene-Producing Fusarium Strains Determined from 28S Ribosomal DNA Sequences. Appl Environ Microbiol 63 1843... 

Matsumoto G, Wuchiyama J, Shingu Y, Kimura M, Yoneyama K, Yamaguchi I (1999) The Trichothecene Biosynthesis Regulatory Gene from the TVpe B Producer Fusarium Strains Sequence of Tri6 and Its Expression in Escherichia coli. Biosci... 

Galactose oxidase is produced by the fungus Dactylium dendroides, recently renamed as a Fusarium spp. The amounts of enzyme produced by the wild-type Fusarium strains are, however, low. 

In our optimized fermentation protocols we were able to produce almost a 100-fold more enzyme using Pichia pastoris as expression host compared to fermentations using the wild-type Fusarium strain. 

At present, very few species of fungi have been taken from the sea surface an undetermined species of the genus Fusarium (strain T-1) has been isolated in Japanese waters, and its culture has led to the extraction of a group of carotenoid pigments containing neurosporaxanthin and its glucosylated ester, which is the first known example of such a glucoside (Sakaki et al, 2002). 

Sakaki, H., Kaneno, H., Sumiya, Y, Tsushima, M., Miki, W., Kishimoto, N., Fujita, T, Matsumoto, S., Komemushi, S., and Sawabe, A. (2002) A new carotenoid glycosyl ester isolated from a marine microorganism Fusarium strain T-1. J. Nat. Prod., 65, 1683-1684. 

Dnmestre A, T Chone, J-M Portal, M Gerard, J Berthelin (1997) Cyanide degradation nnder alkaline conditions by a strain of Fusarium solani isolated from contaminated soils. Appl Environ Microbiol 63 2729-2734. 

Notz R, M Maurhofer, H Dubach, D Haas, G Defago (2002) Fusaric acid-producing strains of Fusarium oxysporum alter 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol biosynthetic gene expression in Pseudomonas fluorescens CHAO and in the rhizosphere of wheat. Appl Environ Microbiol 68 2229-2235. 

Gelderblom, W.C. et al.. Cancer promoting potential of different strains of Fusarium moniliforme in a short-term cancer initiation/promotion assay. Carcinogenesis, 9, 1405, 1988. 

The spectrum of its activity is somewhat narrower than that of amphotericin and nystatin, but at the same time, it is less toxic. It exhibits especially pronounced activity against a few strains of Fusarium and Cefalosporium. Natamycin is a drug for treating superficial fungal infections, and it is used only for ophthalmologic purposes. Synonyms of this drug are pimafucin, pimaricin, tennecetin, and others. 

Fusarium, Humicola, Neurospora, and Schizophyllum (47). These polymers and their degradation products may also be degraded by bacteria, most notably the gram-negative strains (47). 

A reduction in cutinase production should result in the PNB-1 mutant being less virulent. The pathogenesis of the two strains were evaluated in a pea stem bioassay developed by Kolattukudy and coworkers in which infection by Fusarium solani results in wound formation within three days on the epicotyl of pea sedlings (15). The virulence of T-8 had previously been shown to be reduced in this assay by the addition of inhibitors of cutinase or by rabbit anticutinase antibodies (15-18), indicating that cutinase played an important role in pathogenesis. When the cutinase-defective mutant was evaluated in the bioassay, the mutant exhibited a 55% reduction (p < 0.05) in virulence compared with the T-8 parental strain and the addition of purified cutinase at 1 mg/ml to the mutant enhanced wound formation to 80% of that of the parent (p > 0.5). These data further support the notion that the mutant was defective in cutinase. 

Bakan, B., Giraud-DelviUe, C., Pinson, L., Richard-Molard, D., Fournier, E., and Bryggo, Y. (2002). Identification by PCR of Fusarium culmorum strains producing large and small amounts of deoxynivalenol. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68,5472-5479. 

Gonzalez-Jaen, M. T., Mirete, S., Patino, B., Lopez-Errasquin, E., and Covadonga, V. (2004). Genetic markers for the analysis of variability and for production of specific diagnostic sequences in fumonisin-producing strains of Fusarium verticillioides. Eur.. Plant Pathol. 110, 525-532. 

Sanchez-Rangel, D., Sanjuan-Badillo, A., and Plasencia, J. (2005). Fumonstn production by Fusarium verticillioides strains isolated from maize in Mexico and development of a polymerase chain reaction to detect potential toxigenic strains in grains. Agric. Food Chem. 53, 8565-8571. 

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