Mucor rouxii

Hoover (1993) described the production of chitosan from mycelia of Absidia coerulea, Mucor rouxii, Gongronella butieri, Phycomyces blakesieeanus, and Absidia blakesleeana. A. coerulea ATCC 14076 and NRRL 1315 were the best producers of chitosan among the strains examined. Crestini et al. 

Chatterjee, S., Adhya, M., Guha, A. K., and Chatterjee, . P. (2005). Chitosan from Mucor rouxii Production and physico-chemical characterization. Process Biochem. 40,395-400. 

Mucoran, isolated from cell walls of Mucor rouxii, and purified by way of its insoluble, copper complex, consists principally of... 

Encelin from Montanoa speciosa is inhibitory to growth and development of fungal cells of Mucor rouxii. Other cytotoxic sesquiterpene lactones from Montanoa tomentosa ssp. microcephala have been reported.45,46 A number of kaurane diterpenes and e/tf-kauranoids have been reported that are potentially useful because of their cytotoxicity against human tumor cells, anti-HIV activity, and trypanosomicidal activity.47 56 New structures are frequently discovered, and probably we will learn new effects in humans and animals in the future.57,58 Paradoxically, these plant natural products probably have specific and important effects in the plants, but we are still ignorant of these roles. 

D., University of Delaware, unpublished data). Since these experiments were carried out with chitosan obtained from crab shells, further experiments with chitosan isolated from Mucor rouxii (47) will prove whether microbially produced chitosans are more effective elicitors for the biosynthesis of certain phytochemicals than those obtained from marine organisms. 

Several plants A6-desaturase genes have been cloned from Anemone leveillei, borago [211], three Echium species, Marchantia polymorpha. Primula farcinosa, P. vialii and P. juliae, as well as from fungi Mortierella alpine, M. isabelina, Mucor rouxii [205] and Pythium irregulare, from the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum [203] and from mosses the Ceratodom purpureus and Physcomitrella patens [212], although not all of them have been expressed in plants. 

Laoteng, K., Mannontarat, R., Tanticharoen, M., and Cheevadhanarak, S., A6-Desaturase gene of Mucor rouxii with high similarity to plant A6-desaturase and its heterologous expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 2000, 279, 17-22. 

Lindber, A.-M., and Hansson, L., Production of Y-linolenic acid by the fungus Mucor rouxii on cheap nitrogen and carbon sources, Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 2004, 36, 26-28. 

Mosqueda-Cano, G., and Gutierrez-Corona, J.F. 1995. Environmental and developmental regulation of carotenogenesis in the dimorphic fungus Mucor rouxii. Curr Microbiol 31 141-145. 

Terenzi, H.F. Roselino, E. Passeron, S. Two types of pyruvate kinase in Mucor rouxii. Changes in the enzymatic pattern related to aerobic development. Eur. J. Biochem., 18, 342-350 (1971)... 

The mould Mucor rouxii oxidizes ergosterol to ergosta-5,7,9(ll),22-tetra-enol. ... 

Certain Mucorales examined have shown a relatively high degree of tolerance to the sterol inhibitors. For example, 80 ppm of propiconazole is required for 50% growth inhibition of Mucor rouxii in liquid shake culture (57). Growth inhibition by this relatively high concentration of theTnhibitor is probably due to direct interaction of the triazole with the plasma membrane, and not to... 

Davis LL, Bartnicki-Garcia S (1984) Chitosan synthesis by the tandem action of chitin synthetase and chitin deacetylase from Mucor rouxii. Biochemistry 23 1065-1073... 

Arcidiacono S, Kaplan DL (1992) Molecular weight distribution of chitosan isolated from Mucor rouxii under different culture and processing conditions. Biotechnol Bioeng 39 281-286... 

White SA, Farina PR, Fulton I (1979) Production and isolation of chitosan from Mucor rouxii. Appl Envhon Microbiol 38 323-328... 

A potential industrial method for the production and isolation of chitosan from the hyphal walls of Mucor rouxii as an alternative to the product derived from shellfish chitin has been reported. ... 

In a recent study Ruiz-Herrera et al, (1980) used digitonin to disrupt chitosomes of Mucor rouxii and found that whereas the whole chitosomes had sedimentation co-efficients of 105s, the enzyme released by the detergent was... 

Lyr, H. Seyd, W. (1978) Chitin Synthetase Inhibition in Mucor rouxii Under the in vitro Effects of Fungicide and Other Active Substances , Zeitschrift fur Allergie and Mikrobiologie, 18, 721-9... 

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