Alkaloid production in the fungus Penicillium sizovae
Kozlovskiĭ, A.G.; Vepritskaia, I.G.; Gaiazova, N.B.
Prikladnaia Biokhimiia i Mikrobiologiia 22(2): 205-210
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0555-1099 PMID: 3703836 Document Number: 282377
The dynamics of production of agroclavine-I and epoxyagroclavine-I, the basic components of the Penicillium sizovae alkaloid fraction, was being studied. The biosynthesis of alkaloids occurs in two stages coinciding in time with the growth phases. The culture studied is shown to have a considerably higher content of extracellular alkaloids than that of the mycelium. When the culture is grown on a medium with mannitol and succinic acid, separate consumption of carbon sources is observed. The alkaloid production in P. sizovae occurs in the presence of high residual concentrations of phosphorus in the medium.