Malbranchea cinnamomea
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| Species: | M. cinnamomea
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| “Malbranchea cinnamomea Oorschot & de Hoog (1984)
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Malbranchea cinnamomea is a thermophilic fungus belonging to the order Onygenales.[1] This ascomycete fungi is often isolated from higher-temperature environments. It is naturally found in composting soil and can degrade plant biomass. M. cinnamonea has biochemical relevance, as it produces a quinone antibiotic (6-(1-acetylethyl)-2-methoxy-2,5-cyclohexadiene-1,4-dione) named malbranicin,[2] as well as thermostable enzymes, such as alpha-glucosidases, xylanases, alpha-amylases, and glucanases.
The genome of M. cinnamomea was published in 2017 by Zoraide Granchi and coworkers from the OPTIBIOCAT project.[3] The genome contains 24.96 million bases. The OPTIBIOCAT consortium estimates that there are 9,437 protein-coding genes. The sequencing was performed in Leiden, The Netherlands[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Morgenstern, Ingo; Powlowski, Justin; Ishmael, Nadeeza; Darmond, Corinne; Marqueteau, Sandrine; Moisan, Marie-Claude; Quenneville, Geneviève; Tsang, Adrian (2012). "A molecular phylogeny of thermophilic fungi". Fungal Biology. 116 (4): 489–502. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2012.01.010. PMID 22483047.
- ^ "Healing mushrooms: Malbranchea cinnamomea". 21 June 2018.
- ^ Granchi Z; van Pelt S; Thanh VN; Olsson L; Hüttner S (2017). "Genome Sequence of the Thermophilic Biomass-Degrading Fungus Malbranchea cinnamomea FCH 10.5". Genome Announc. 5 (33): e00779-17. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00779-17. PMC 5604768. PMID 28818895.
- ^ "OPTIBIOCAT partner GenomeScan".