Pycnoporus coccineus

Kobayashi and coworkers reported on the mediator-free direct polymerization of acryl amide using the laccase from Pycnoporus coccineus suggesting a simplified polymerization scheme [67]. Using the laccase from Myceliophthora ther-mophilia, this was not achieved [68,69] and a follow-up study validating Kobayashi s initial study is still awaited. 

Also laccases, oxidoreductases with a Cu atom in the active center, have been successfully applied to the synthesis of phenol polymers. For example, phenol and several derivatives were polymerized by laccase from Pycnoporus coccineus (PCL) in aqueous organic solvents to yield the corresponding polymers [149]. The same enzyme was used to produce PPO from syringic acid (79) and from 2,6-dimethylphenol. Laccase from Myceliophthore (MPL) was found to catalyze the polymerization of syringic acid to PPO [135-137]. Lac-... 

CNSL cashew nut shell liquid DP degree of polymerization EGCG epigallocatechin gaUate HRP horseradish peroxidase LDL low-density lipoprotein ML Myceliophthora laccase MMP matrix metaUoproteinases PCL Pycnoporus coccineus laccase PL poly(e-lysine)... 

Substituted phenoxazin-3-one pigments impart the very stable bright orange-red colour to the conspicuous bracket shaped fruit bodies of the wood-rotting fungi Pycnoporus cinnabarinus, P, sanguineus and P. coccineus (Table 45). 

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