Luminous mushrooms

Isobe, M., Uyakul, D., and Goto, T. (1988). Lampteromyces bioluminescence. 2. Lampteroflavin, a light emitter in the luminous mushroom Lampteromyces japonicus. Tetrahedron Lett. 44 1169-1172. 

Shimomura, O. (1991b). Superoxide-triggered chemiluminescence of the extract of luminous mushroom Panellus stipticus after treatment with methylamine. J. Exp. Botany 42 555-560. 

Shimomura, O., Satoh, S., and Kishi, Y. (1993b). Structure and non-enzymatic light emission of two luciferin precursors isolated from the luminous mushroom Panellus stipticus. J. Biolumin. Chemilumin. 8 201-205. 

An estimation of possibility to use Russian strains of luminous mushrooms for bioluminescence-based toxicity testing was the aim of our investigation. There is little data about luminous mushrooms in Russia. 

Van DT. The successful cultivation of a new luminous mushroom Omphalotus af. Illudent. 

Carolinoside (69), which can be considered to contain a pentenulose unit, is a component of Solanum carolinense and is the specific feeding inducing factor for Manduca sexto,and lampteroflavin (70) is the light emitter of the luminous mushroom L. japonicus ... 

Acyclic Alditols. - Lampteroflavin (1) has been isolated from a luminous mushroom. 

We tested 26 strains from the Mushrooms Collection of Komarov Botanical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (Mushrooms Collection of BIN) and found that 6 of them were luminous ... 

Intensity of luminescence of cultures A. isolated in Krasnoyarsk area in 2007 was higher in comparison with the cultures from the Mushrooms Collection of BIN. We studied the effect of different concentrations (from 10 6 mg/mL to 1 mg/mL) of organic and inorganic toxicants on culture luminescence of 3 species of luminous fungi A. borealis, A. mellea and L. japonicus. It was shown that the mushroom A. mellea were more sensitive to action of toxicants than A. borealis and L. japonicus. The minimal concentration of benzoquinone resulted in a 21 % decrease in luminescence in comparison with the initial value, and a decrease in luminescence on 73 % was found at higher concentrations. The lowest concentration of copper ions which could be determined using this system was 10 5 mg/mL (19 % decrease in luminescence and a concentration 10"4 mg/mL caused a 33 % reduction of luminescence in comparison with the initial value) (Fig. 1,2). Lyophilized bioluminescent bacterial biosensors are popular nowadays because they are very sensitive even to micro-quantities of toxicants, and are very simple to... 

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