Here, we report about a unique aquatic fungus Mucor hiemalisEH8 that can remove toxic ionic mercury from water by intracellular accumulation and reduction into elemental mercury (Hg0 ). EH8 was isolated from a microbial biofilm grown in sulfidic-reducing spring water sourced at a Marching's site located downhill from hop cultivation areas with a history of mercury use. A thorough biodiversity s...

Accumulation of free unsaturated fatty acids, added individually to the medium, into cellular triacylglycerol (TG) were examined using a fungus, Mucor hiemalis HA-30, which could produce the eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5n-3)-enriched TG. Linoleic (18:2n-6), γ-linolenic (18:3n-6), arachidonic acids (20:4n-6), and 20:5n-3 were favored for accumulation in TG and each fatty acid accumulated in TG at ...

Fungi and their enzymes have long been thought to cause the softening of pasteurized gherkins; however, exact fungal species timing contamination are unknown. Ready-to-sell pickle jars blossoms growing gherkins were inoculated with DNA-sequenced fungi isolated from rotting at various stages production. Fusarium oxysporum, equiseti, Galactomyces geotrichum, Mucor circinelloides, hiemalis, fragil...

Abstract Protoilludene-type sesquiterpene aryl esters are a unique and very diverse compound class that were exclusively isolated from members of the genus Armillaria ( Agaricomycetes , Physalacriaceae ) up to this point. Herein, we describe isolation structural characterization 5′- O -methyl-14-hydroxyarmillane 1 ), new armillane-type derivative, was obtained submerged cultures Guyanagaster ne...