| coprophilous fungi of the horse. | a total of 1267 microfungi, including 35 myxomycetes, were recorded from the fecal samples of the 60 horses; of these 395 were found on 20 saddle-horse feces, 363 on 20 race-horses and 509 on 20 working horses. eighty two species representing 53 genera were recorded; of these 7 were zygomycetes, 18 ascomycetes, 1 basidiomycetes and 25 fungi imperfecti: 2 myxomycetes. common coprophilous fungi are in decreasing order pilobolus kleinii, saccobolus depauperatus, mucor hiemalis, lasiobolus ciliatus, ... | 1981 | 7242651 |
| microbial transformation of steroids: contribution to 14 alpha-hydroxylations. | the regioselective and stereoselective hydroxylation of steroids by fungal strains previously known for their hydroxylation capabilities, such as thamnostylum (= helicostylum) piriforme atcc 8992, mucor griseocyanus atcc 1207a, actinomucor elegans (= mucor parasiticus) mmp 3122 (mucorales), and zygodesmus sp. atcc 14716, was investigated with special interest for the 14 alpha-hydroxylation reaction. a preliminary screening had shown that some of these microorganisms were adequate for the product ... | 1995 | 8539788 |
| microbial models of mammalian metabolism. fungal metabolism of phenolic and nonphenolic p-cymene-related drugs and prodrugs. i. metabolites of thymoxamine. | this study was undertaken to validate the use of microbial biotransformation systems for drug metabolism studies. thymoxamine 1 was rapidly hydrolyzed to desacetylthymoxamine (dat) 2 by numerous fungi. other known animal metabolites, such as n-desmethyl-desacetylthymoxamine 3 and desacetylthymoxamine-o-sulfate 6, were produced from dat by mucor rouxii and mortierella isabellina. dat-n-oxide 5, a putative animal microsomal metabolite, was also produced by m. isabellina, in addition, a few strains ... | 1997 | 9172947 |
| characteristics and use of okara, the soybean residue from soy milk production--a review. | large quantities of okara produced annually pose a significant disposal problem. it contains mostly crude fiber composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, about 25% protein, 10-15% oil, but little starch or simple carbohydrates. it is a suitable dietary additive in biscuits and snacks because it reduces calorie intake and increases dietary fiber. the high-quality protein fraction has good water holding and emulsifying qualities and contains a peptide with anti-hypertension effects. the pe ... | 1999 | 10563901 |
| control of foodborne pathogens during sufu fermentation and aging. | control of the foodborne pathogens escherichia coli o157:h7, salmonella typhimurium, staphylococcus aureus, and listeria monocytogenes during sufu fermentation was evaluated. before fermentation, pathogens were inoculated onto tofu (substrate for sufu) at 5 log cfu/g or 3 log cfu/g, and starter culture (actinomucor elegans) was inoculated at 3 log cfu/g. after 2 days of fermentation at 30 degrees c, the four pathogens reached 7 to 9 log cfu/g, and the mold count reached 6 to 7 log cfu/g. after f ... | 2000 | 11029011 |
| control of foodborne pathogens during sufu fermentation and aging. | control of the foodborne pathogens escherichia coli o157:h7, salmonella typhimurium, staphylococcus aureus, and listeria monocytogenes during sufu fermentation was evaluated. before fermentation, pathogens were inoculated onto tofu (substrate for sufu) at 5 log cfu/g or 3 log cfu/g, and starter culture (actinomucor elegans) was inoculated at 3 log cfu/g. after 2 days of fermentation at 30 degrees c, the four pathogens reached 7 to 9 log cfu/g, and the mold count reached 6 to 7 log cfu/g. after f ... | 2000 | 11192025 |
| [diversity of facultatively anaerobic microscopic mycelial fungi in soils]. | the numbers of microscopic fungi isolated from soil samples after anaerobic incubation varied from tens to several hundreds of cfu per one gram of soil; a total of 30 species was found. this group is composed primarily of mitotic fungi of the ascomycete affinity belonging to the orders hypocreales (fusarium solani, f. oxysporum, fusarium sp., clonostachys grammicospora, c. rosea. acremonium sp., gliocladium penicilloides, trichoderma aureoviride, t. harzianum, t. polysporum, t. viride. t. koning ... | 2008 | 18365728 |
| actinomucor elegans var. kuwaitiensis isolated from the wound of a diabetic patient. | the new variety of actinomucor elegans var. kuwaitiensis, isolated from an open necrotic wound of a diabetic patient is described. this strain differed from the two previously described varieties of a. elegans, a. elegans var. elegans and a. elegans var. meitauzae by nearly 1% or more sequence divergence within d1/d2 regions of 28s rrna and the its region of rrna genes. like the other two varieties, no zygospores were observed; however, there was evidence suggesting intersexual diploidy, a featu ... | 2008 | 18496764 |
| Specificity of carboxypeptidases from Actinomucor elegans and their debittering effect on soybean protein hydrolysates. | The specificities of carboxypeptidases from Actinomucor elegans were investigated by determining enzymatic activities at pH 7.0 and pH 4.0 with 16 Z-dipeptides and three Z-tripeptides as substrates. The debittering effect was evaluated and the free amino acid compositions of the soybean protein hydrolysates were analyzed before and after treatment with A. elegans extract at pH 7.0 and pH 4.0, with carboxypeptidases from Aspergillus oryzae as control. The results of the enzyme activity determinat ... | 2011 | 21858525 |
| acid protease production by fungi used in soybean food fermentation. | growth conditions for maximum protease production by rhizopus oligosporus, mucor dispersus, and actinomucor elegans, used in oriental food fermentations, were investigated. enzyme yields by all three fungi were higher in solid substrate fermentations than in submerged culture. the level of moisture in solid substrate must be at about 50 to 60%. very little growth of these fungi was noted when the moisture of substrate was below 35%, whereas many fungi including most storage fungi generally grow ... | 2014 | 4857353 |
| identification of angiotensin i-converting enzyme inhibitory peptides derived from enzymatic hydrolysates of razor clam sinonovacula constricta. | angiotensin i-converting enzyme (ace) inhibitory activity of razor clam hydrolysates produced using five proteases, namely, pepsin, trypsin, alcalase, flavourzyme and proteases from actinomucor elegans t3 was investigated. flavourzyme hydrolysate showed the highest level of degree of hydrolysis (dh) (45.87%) followed by a. elegans t3 proteases hydrolysate (37.84%) and alcalase (30.55%). the a. elegans t3 proteases was observed to be more effective in generating small peptides with ace-inhibitory ... | 2016 | 27271639 |
| abutilon theophrasti's defense against the allelochemical benzoxazolin-2(3h)-one: support by actinomucor elegans. | abutilon theophrasti medik., previously found to be rather insensitive to benzoxazinoid containing rye mulch and the allelochemical benzoxazolin-2(3h)-one (boa), can be associated with the zygomycete actinomucor elegans, whereby the fungus colonizes the root relatively superficially and mainly in the maturation zone. the fungus mitigates necrosis of the cotyledons when seedlings are incubated with 2 mm boa, in contrast to those that lack the fungus. in liquid cultures of the fungus, tryptophan w ... | 2014 | 25432667 |
| enhanced glucosamine production with actinomucor elegans based on stimulating factor of methanol. | glucosamine (glcn) is a major and valuable component in the cell wall of fungi. in this study, the cell wall was treated via a two-stage alkali and acid process, and chitin and chitosan were fully deacetylated, partially depolymerized, and converted to glcn oligosaccharides. then, the oligosaccharides were analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography. the influences of actinomucor elegans on glcn production in a flask culture were investigated to achieve an optimum yield of glcn. the exper ... | 2014 | 25320446 |
| biotransformation of resibufogenin by actinomucor elegans. | resibufogenin (rb), a major bioactive bufadienolide, has the potential anticancer activity. in the present work, biotransformation of rb by actinomucor elegans as 3.2778 yielded five products, namely 3-oxo-resibufogenin (1), 3-epi-resibufogenin (2), 3-epi-12-oxo-hydroxylresibufogenin (3), 3α-acetoxy-15α-hydroxylbufalin (4), and 3-epi-12α-hydroxylresibufogenin (5), respectively. among them, metabolites 3 and 4 are previously unreported. the chemical structures of metabolites 1-5 were fully elucid ... | 2014 | 24911667 |
| biosynthesis of gamma-linolenic acid and beta-carotene by zygomycetes fungi. | due to increasing demand for natural sources of both polyunsaturated fatty acids (pufas) and beta-carotene, 28 zygomycetes fungal soil isolates were screened for their potential to synthesize these biologically active compounds. although all fungi produced c18 pufas, only nine strains also formed beta-carotene. although actinomucor elegans ccf 3218 was the best producer of gamma-linolenic acid (gla) (251 mg/l), umbelopsis isabellina ccf 2412 was found to be the most valuable fungus because of th ... | 2013 | 23625863 |
| acetylcholinesterase inhibitory activity of chinese sufu (fermented tofu) ethanol-extract. | acetylcholinesterase (ache) inhibitory activities of commercial sufu and self-produced sufu were investigated in this experiment. the anti-ache activities of commercial sufu samples of 15 brands, sourcing from various parts of china, and self-produced sufu, fermented with actinomucor elegans 3.118, were measured. the results indicated that ethanol extract of chinese sufu exhibited significant inhibitory activity against ache in vitro. the inhibitory activity of no. 5 sufu was the strongest (ic₅₀ ... | 2012 | 25005942 |
| application of standard addition for the determination of carboxypeptidase activity in actinomucor elegans bran koji. | leucine carboxypeptidase (ec 3.4.16) activity in actinomucor elegans bran koji was investigated via absorbance at 507 nm after stained by cd-nihydrin solution, with calibration curve a, which was made by a set of known concentration standard leucine, calibration b, which was made by three sets of known concentration standard leucine solutions with the addition of three concentrations inactive crude enzyme extract, and calibration c, which was made by three sets of known concentration standard le ... | 2013 | 22232905 |
| actinomucor elegans as an emerging cause of mucormycosis. | we report an invasive mucormycosis caused by actinomucor elegans in a patient with refractory aplastic anemia. the organism was isolated from a necrotic skin lesion on the patient's left arm and demonstrated angioinvasive features on histopathology examination. in contrast to three cases described previously, we describe the first case of a. elegans invasive fungal infection in an immunocompromised patient. this report, along with the three previously reported cases, is convincing evidence that ... | 2012 | 22205785 |
| fatal actinomucor elegans var. kuwaitiensis infection following combat trauma. | we report the first case of invasive mucormycosis secondary to actinomucor elegans infection. a severely injured soldier with a fatal a. elegans var. kuwaitiensis infection is described. the identification of this fungus was performed by classical and molecular methods, and this report documents the pathogenicity of the recently described variety actinomucor elegans var. kuwaitiensis. | 2009 | 19675213 |
| debittering effect of actinomucor elegans peptidases on soybean protein hydrolysates. | effects of the enzymes in actinomucor elegans extract and the enzyme alcalase 2.4l on debittering the soybean protein hydrolysates were investigated. when the protein was treated only with the latter, a strong bitterness formed; but it decreased if the protein was treated with both the enzymes. the more the enzymes were used, weaker was the bitterness tasted. sds-page profile and esi-ms spectrum of the hydrolysates evidenced that the alcalase could convert the protein into peptides rapidly, whil ... | 2008 | 17943333 |
| [study on the properties of a novel glycine amino peptidase from actinomucor elegans]. | the glycine amino peptidase of actinomucor elegans was studied in this work. for the enzyme production actinomucor elegans was cultured with an enzyme producing medium. then the cells were collected and subjected to enzyme purification. the glycine aminopeptidase was purified 592 times by a deae-toyopearl column, a toyopearl hw 65-c column and a superdex 200 column subsequently and the purified enzyme had a specific activity of 14.2 u/mg. the enzyme was estimated to have molecular mass of 320kd ... | 2004 | 15968992 |
| purification and properties of a novel glycine amino peptidase from actinomucor elegans and its potential application. | to study the properties and show the potential application of a glycine aminopeptidase from actinomucor elegans. | 2004 | 15479413 |
| novel aminopeptidase specific for glycine from actinomucor elegans. | glycyl aminopeptidase was purified 600-fold from a cell extract of actinomucor elegans by ammonium sulfate fractionation and sequential chromatography on deae-toyopearl, toyopearl hw65c, and fplc-superdex 200 hr, with recovery of 3.3% of the activity. the enzyme highly specifically hydrolyzed gly-x (amino acid, peptide, or arylamide) bonds. the enzyme hydrolyzed other amino acid residues but at a rate of less than one fifth that with gly. the order was gly > ala > met > arg > ser > leu. the km v ... | 2003 | 12619677 |
| maxillary sinusitis caused by actinomucor elegans. | we report the first case of maxillary sinusitis caused by actinomucor elegans in an 11-year-old patient. histopathological and mycological examinations of surgical maxillary sinuses samples showed coenocytic hyphae characteristic of mucoraceous fungi. the fungi recovered had stolons and rhizoids, nonapophyseal and globose sporangia, and whorled branched sporangiophores and was identified as a. elegans. after surgical cleaning and chemotherapy with amphotericin b administered intravenously and by ... | 2001 | 11158140 |