title: Indole compounds in fruiting bodies of some selected Macromycetes species and in their mycelia cultured in vitro.
abstract: Methanol extracts of fruiting bodies of two purportedly edible species of higher fungi (Macromycetes)- Tricholoma equestre (L.: Fr.) Kumm. and Xerocomus badius (Fr.) Kühn.ex Gilb., collected from a natural environment and of biomass obtained from in vitro cultures were assayed for contents of nine indole compounds. Common indole compounds in extracts from fruiting bodies of both species were: tryptophan, tryptamine and serotonin, in mycelial extracts from in vitro cultures: tryptophan and tryptamine. Contents of the compounds investigated varied widely, from 0.182 to 2.851 mg/100g d.w. in fruiting bodies and from 0.322 to 2.096 mg/100g d.w. in biomass from in vitro cultures, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum, Kraków, Poland. muchon@poczta.fm
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Muszyńska
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sułkowska-Ziaja
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ekiert
mesh_terms: D000363:Agaricales / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D000596:Amino Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D048690:Fruiting Bodies, Fungal / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D007211:Indoles / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D025282:Mycelium / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D007211:Indoles