2018
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjm.2018.06.001
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Screening of endophytic fungi stored in a culture collection for taxol production

Abstract: In this work, four isolates of endophytic fungi (Alternaria alternata, Colletotrichum gloesporioides, Glomerella cingulata and Nigrospora sphaerica), deposited in the culture collection 'University Recife Mycologia' (URM) at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, were characterized for the genes ITS 1 and 4 (region 5.8 S) and evaluated for taxol production.

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“…The endophytic production of secondary metabolites varies according to the biology and growth conditions of the microorganism and are produced as an adaptation to specific functions in nature. They play vital roles in vivo owing to the numerous metabolic interactions observed between endophytes and their hosts, such as signaling, defense, and regulation of symbiosis (De Andrade et al 2018). In view of this, the search for new bioactive molecules should focus on organisms that inhabit new ecosystems or niches that are still unexplored, because natural products are adapted to a specific function in nature (Azevedo et al 2000, Nisa et al 2015.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The endophytic production of secondary metabolites varies according to the biology and growth conditions of the microorganism and are produced as an adaptation to specific functions in nature. They play vital roles in vivo owing to the numerous metabolic interactions observed between endophytes and their hosts, such as signaling, defense, and regulation of symbiosis (De Andrade et al 2018). In view of this, the search for new bioactive molecules should focus on organisms that inhabit new ecosystems or niches that are still unexplored, because natural products are adapted to a specific function in nature (Azevedo et al 2000, Nisa et al 2015.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These genes encode the enzymes 10-deacetylbaccatin III-10-O-acetyl-transferase and C-13 phenylpropanoid side-chain-CoA acyltransferase, respectively, that are involved in the Taxol biosynthetic pathway of Taxus spp. Although these PCR primers have been used to screen gDNA from fungi deemed able to synthesize the compound [36-38], the reverse PCR primer designed by Zhang and colleagues [39] for the dbat gene, is based on the plant sequence (GenBank No. EF028093) and is an intron-spanning primer.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, another dbat sequence for the basidiomycete-fungus, Grammothele lineata , published by Das, Rahman, et al, 2017 [42], does not seem to be present in the draft genome of the fungus, published later that year [43]. While in some reports the dbat gene has been detected, their sequences were thought to be non-specific amplification and BLASTn searches produced no significant hits, or simply the dbat sequences were not published in GeneBank [36-38]. Thus, our negative results obtained during the initial PCR screening using the published primers for dbat and bapt would be consistent with those obtained for published fungal genomes, that is, genes with significant homology to some of the plant genes involved in Taxol biosynthesis, are absent [40, 44].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Porém, microrganismos endofíticos podem se tornar patógenos caso ocorra um desiquilíbrio entre a virulência, característica de vários desses microrganismos e a defesa da planta (ANDRADE et al, 2018). Essa característica indica que esses fungos foram, no passado, uma forma latente de patógeno (FERNANDES et al, 2015).…”
Section: Fungos Endofíticosunclassified