Trichoderma hamatum

Fig. 2.3 HPLC analysis of ginsenosides recovered from the spent medium of Trichoderma hamatum and Pythium irregulare isolates. A ginsenoside mixture extracted from 3-year-old ginseng roots was added to the culture medium of both T. hamatum and Pythium irregulare, recovered after several days of incubation and analyzed by HPLC. The profile of ginsenosides added to the culture medium (a) included ginsenosides Rgi, Re, Rbi, Rba, Rc, Rd, and F2, as well as gypenoside XVII (G-XVII). (b-e) Profiles of ginsenosides recovered from T. hamatum isolate 3-323 (b), and Pythium irregulare isolates BR 486 (c), BR 598 (d), and BR 1068 (e).

Figure 3. HPLC Analysis of Ginsenosides. Ginsenosides were isolated from spent broth in which either no organism (upper trace), Trichoderma hamatum (middle trace) or Pythium irregulare (lower trace) had been cultured for five days at 25 °C in the dark. Ginsenosides were chromatographed on a Microsorb-MV C-18 column (150 x 4.6 mm, 5 mm) using an acetonitrile H20 gradient (Nicol et al., 2002), and detected at 203 nm. The in the lower trace indicates the unknown metabolite found in the spent broth of Py. irregulare.

The methyl ester of isonitrile acid (74), a metabolite of the fungus Trichoderma hamatum. has been synthesized in racemic form " biosynthetic studies on the co-occurring dienyl isonitrile acid (75) have shown the incorporation of... 

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