Stachybotrys chartarum: a fungus for our time.
Stachybotrys chartarum, a fungus found in damp buildings and sometimes ascribed a role in building-related illnesses, produces a variety of secondary metabolites including trichothecenes, triprenylated phenolics, and a new class of diterpenoids called atranones. A related fungus, Memnoniella echinata also produces trichothecenes and the triprenylated phenolics. Herein the production of these compounds from cultures of the above are reviewed.
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Bruce B
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Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. bj6@umail.umd.edu
D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor; D004224:Diterpenes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D003904:Mitosporic Fungi / Q000378:metabolism; D010636:Phenols / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D018877:Sick Building Syndrome; D013191:Stachybotrys / Q000378:metabolism*; D014255:Trichothecenes / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology
D004224:Diterpenes; D010636:Phenols; D014255:Trichothecenes