The biosynthesis of low-molecular-weight nitrogen-containing secondary metabolite-alkaloids by the resident strains of Penicillium chrysogenum and Penicillium expansum isolated on the board of the Mir space station
Kozlovskiĭ, A.G.; Zhelifonova, V.P.; Adanin, V.M.; Antipova, T.V.; Shnyreva, A.V.; Viktorov, A.N.
Mikrobiologiia 71(6): 773-777
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-3656
PMID: 12526198
Accession: 047586486
The analysis of the absorption spectra of the low-molecular-weight nitrogen-containing secondary metabolites--alkaloids--of 4 Penicillium chrysogenum strains and 6 Penicillium expansum strains isolated on board the Mir space station showed that all these strains synthesize metabolites of alkaloid origin (roquefortine, 3,12-dihydroroquefortine, meleagrin, viridicatin, viridicatol, isorugulosuvin, rugulosuvin B, N-acetyl-tryptamine, and a "yellow metabolite" containing the benzoquinone chromophore).