Aspergillus desertorum

Aspergillus desertorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Eurotiomycetes
Order:	Eurotiales
Family:	Aspergillaceae
Genus:	Aspergillus
Species:	A. desertorum
Binomial name
Aspergillus desertorum (Samson & Mouchacca) Samson, Visagie & Houbraken (1974) Samson, Visagie & Houbraken (2014) [1]
Type strain
CBS 653.73, IFO 30840, IMI 343076, NBRC 30840, NRRL 5921 [2]
Synonyms
Emericella desertorum [3]

Aspergillus desertorum is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus which has been isolated from desert soil. ^{[4] [5] [3] [1]} It is from the Nidulantes section. ^[6] Aspergillus desertorum produces desertorin A, desertorin B, desertorin C, paxiline and emindol DA. ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

In 2016, the genome of A. desertorum was sequenced as a part of the Aspergillus whole-genome sequencing project - a project dedicated to performing whole-genome sequencing of all members of the genus Aspergillus. ^[11] The genome assembly size was 29.04 Mbp. ^[11]

Growth and morphology

A. desertorum has been cultivated on both Czapek yeast extract agar (CYA) plates and Malt Extract Agar Oxoid® (MEAOX) plates. The growth morphology of the colonies can be seen in the pictures below.

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  Aspergillus desertorum growing on CYA plate
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  Aspergillus desertorum growing on MEAOX plate

References

1. "Aspergillus desertorum". www.mycobank.org.
2. "Emericella desertorum Taxon Passport - StrainInfo". www.straininfo.net. Archived from the original on 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2017-04-03.
3. "Aspergillus desertorum". www.uniprot.org.
4. Samson, R. A.; Mouchacca, J. (1974). "Some interesting species of Emericella and Aspergillus from Egyptian desert soil". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 40 (1): 121–131. doi:10.1007/BF00394559. PMID   4545193. S2CID   26536814.
5. "Emericella%20desertorum - Global Catalogue of Microorganisms". GCM.WFCC.info.
6. Chen, A.J.; Frisvad, J.C.; Sun, B.D.; Varga, S.; Kocsubé, S.; Dijksterhuis, J.; Kim, D.H.; Hong, S.-B.; Houbraken, J.; Samson, R.A. (2016). "Aspergillus section Nidulantes (formerly Emericella): Polyphasic taxonomy, chemistry and biology". Studies in Mycology. 84: 1–118. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2016.10.001. PMC   5198626 . PMID   28050053.
7. R.D.H. Murray, Progress in the Chemistry of Organic Natural Products; J.A. Robinson (1991). Tamm, Ch.; W. Herz; G.W. Kirby; W. Steglich (eds.). Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe. Vienna: Springer Vienna. ISBN   978-3-709-19141-5.
8. Betina, Vladimír, ed. (1993). Chromatography of mycotoxins techniques and applications. Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN   978-0-080-85862-3.
9. Wink, Michael, ed. (1999). Functions of plant secondary metabolites and their exploitation in biotechnology (1st ed.). Sheffield: Sheffield Acad. Press. ISBN   978-1-841-27008-1.
10. Buckingham, J.; I.W. Southon; et al., eds. (1989). Dictionary of alkaloids (1st ed.). London: Chapman and Hall. ISBN   978-0-412-24910-5.
11. "Home - Aspergillus desertorum CBS 653.73 v1.0".

Further reading

• Cordell, Geoffrey A., ed. (2003). The alkaloids. Amsterdam: Elservier Academic Press. ISBN   978-0-080-52149-7.
• R.H. Thomson, ed. (1993). The Chemistry of natural products (Second ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN   978-9-401-12144-6.
• Martin, Robert (2011). Aromatic Hydroxyketones: Preparation and Physical Properties (3rd ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. ISBN   978-1-402-09787-4.
• Marco A., van den Berg; Karunakaran, Maruthachalam (2014). Genetic Transformation Systems in Fungi, Band 2. Springer. ISBN   978-3-319-10503-1.
• Krishnaswamy, N.R. (1999). Chemistry of natural products : a unified approach. Hyderabad, India: Universities Press. ISBN   978-8-173-71093-3.
• Rizzacasa, Mark A.; Sargent, Melvyn V. (1 January 1988). "The synthesis of desertorin C, a bicoumarin from the fungus Emericella desertorum" . Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1 (8): 2425–2428. doi:10.1039/P19880002425. ISSN   1364-5463.
• Samson, R. A.; Mouchacca, J. (1974). "Some interesting species of Emericella and Aspergillus from Egyptian desert soil". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 40 (1): 121–131. doi:10.1007/BF00394559. PMID   4545193. S2CID   26536814.