0308-8146/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2011.04.087 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Bi Hall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA. Tel.: + 231 9070. E-mail address: [email protected] (K.M. Phillips). White button, crimini, shiitake, maitake, enoki, oyster, chanterelle, morel, portabella, and uv-treated portabella mushrooms were sampled from U.S. r...

A laccase with a molecular mass of 67 kDa and inhibitory activity toward HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (IC50 = 7.5 microM) was isolated from fresh fruiting bodies of the Lentinus edodes (Shiitake mushroom). Its characteristics were compared with those of laccases from cultured mushroom mycelia reported earlier. The laccase was unadsorbed on DEAE-cellulose, Affi-gel blue gel and CM-cellulose, but ...

Feeding on the dead: White rot fungi, like this shiitake mushroom, have the unusual ability to digest dead wood, making them key players in the decomposition of plant litter. (Image: Wikimedia Commons.) Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e’en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselv...

The activity of Lentinula edodes (shiitake) medicinal mushroom extract were examined on the non-specific immune response and biometrical performance rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Fish (20 g initial weight) divided into 3 treatment groups (60 fish/group) duplicated for 6 weeks having two experimental diets supplemented with 1-2% shiitake a control diet. During feeding process, immunologic...