Penicillium brasilianum

Penicillium brasilianum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Order: Eurotiales
Family: Trichocomaceae
Genus: Penicillium
Species: P. brasilianum
Binomial name
Penicillium brasilianum
Type strain
ATCC 12072, CBS 253.55, FRR 3466, QM 6947[1]
Synonyms

Penicillium paraherquei[2]

Penicillium brasilianum is a fungus species of the genus of Penicillium.[3][2][4] Penicillium brasilianum produces the compounds isoroquefortine C, griseofulvin, ergosterol peroxide, 3β-hydroxy-(22E,24R)-ergosta-5,8,22-trien-7-one, cerevisterol, (22E,24R)-6β-methoxyergosta-7,22-diene-3β,5α-diol[5]

Further reading

See also

References

  1. Straininfo of Penicillium brasilianum
  2. 2.0 2.1 MycoBank
  3. UniProt
  4. Panagiotou, G; Olavarria, R; Olsson, L (2007). "Penicillium brasilianum as an enzyme factory; the essential role of feruloyl esterases for the hydrolysis of the plant cell wall". Journal of Biotechnology 130 (3): 219–28. doi:10.1016/j.jbiotec.2007.04.011. PMID 17544537.
  5. Tang, H. Y.; Zhang, Q.; Li, H.; Gao, J. M. (2014). "Antimicrobial and allelopathic metabolites produced by Penicillium brasilianum". Natural Product Research: 1. doi:10.1080/14786419.2014.940347.
External identifiers for Penicillium brasilianum
Encyclopedia of Life 6449130