Abstract Physcion is an anthraquinone compound observed dominantly in medicinal herbs. This possesses a variety of pharmaceutically important activities and has been developed to be widely used antifungal biopesticide. Herein, we report on the effective preparation 3R -torosachrysone ( 4 ), tetrahydroanthracene precursor physcion, Aspergillus oryzae NSAR1 by heterologous expression related gene...

Mitochondrial DNA of the ascomycete fungus Aspergillus nidulans, a circular molecule of 31 500 base pairs, is cleaved by restriction endonucleases Eco R I, Hind II, Hind III and Bgl II into 3, 7, 9 and 5 fragments, respectively. The relative positions of the cleavage sites could be mapped by analysis of fragments obtained by double enzyme digestions of whole DNA and by complete and partial redi...

cus aureus by heat shock. The effect has then been more thoroughly investigated by landolo and Ordal (5, 6). Since heat shock causes an increased sensitivity of fungal cells to high temperature and blue light (2-4), it seemed justified also to test the response of heat-shocked fungal cells to high concentrations of sodium chloride. Most experiments were performed with the ascomycete Ophiostoma ...

A new crystalline antifungal compound, myriocin, has been isolated from culture filtrates and mycelium of the thermophilic ascomycete Myriococcum albomyces. Myriocin is strongly active in vitro against yeasts and dermatophytes. This paper deals with the production, isolation, and purification, as well as the physical, chemical and biological properties of myriocin and one of its derivatives, an...

Wood-grown cultures of Daldinia concentrica oxidized a permethylated beta-(14)C-labeled synthetic lignin to (14)CO(2) and also cleaved a permethylated alpha-(13)C-labeled synthetic lignin to give C(alpha)-C(beta) cleavage products that were detected by (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry. Therefore, this ascomycete resembles white-rot basidiomycetes in attacking the recalcitrant nonph...

We report the first case of infection by Neosartorya hiratsukae, an ascomycete in which the conidial state resembles Aspergillus fumigatus. The fungus caused a brain infection in a Brazilian woman, who died despite itraconazole treatment. Diagnosis was established by direct microscopic examination, computed tomographic scan, and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain, and repeated cultures fro...

A stress-induced "mycosome" phase of Aureobasidium pullulans consisting of minute reproductive propagules that may revert directly to walled yeast cells is described. Mycosomes detected by light- and electron-microscopy reproduce within senescent plant plastids, and display three developmental pathways: wall-less cells (protoplasts), yeast cells, or membrane-bounded spherules that harbor plasti...

We report the utilization of Discosoma sp. red fluorescent protein DsRed to visualize peroxisomes in the filamentous ascomycete Sordaria macrospora. To achieve labeling of peroxisomes, DsRed was fused to a serine-lysine-leucine tag (SKL). Expression of the DsRed-SKL fusion gene under the control of the Aspergillus nidulans gpd-promoter led to protein import of DsRed into peroxisomes. In this st...

Eisosomes are subcortical organelles implicated in endocytosis and have hitherto been described only in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They comprise two homologue proteins, Pil1 and Lsp1, which colocalize with the transmembrane protein Sur7. These proteins are universally conserved in the ascomycetes. We identify in Aspergillus nidulans (and in all members of the subphylum Pezizomycotina) two homolo...