[Incorporation of caffeine into the macromicete fungus Pleurotus sajor-caju growing on coffee pulp].
TWhen the chemical composition of secondary metabolites from the Pleurotus sajor-caju growing on coffee pulp were study, it was found that the fungus has the faculty of incorporating caffeine inside its fructiferous body. Component of the substrate (around 1.3% on dry basis) did not show a structural change over the alkaloid; this constitutes an unexpected outcome for a species belonging to realm of the fungi.
Nieto Ramírez
Ivonne Jeannette
IJ
Departamento de Química, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ciudad Universitaria, Carrera 30 No 45-03 Edificio 451 Laboratorio 210, Bogotá, Colombia. ijnietor@unal.edu.co
Chegwin Angarita
Carolina
C
Osorio Zuloaga
Hector Jairo
HJ
D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods; D002110:Caffeine / Q000378:metabolism*; D040503:Coffea / Q000737:chemistry; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D009172:Mycology / Q000379:methods; D020076:Pleurotus / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism*
D002110:Caffeine