Disease relevance of Pleurotus

• The effect of adding 5% powdered oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) during 12 weeks on kinetic parameters of cholesterol metabolism was studied in male rats (Wistar, initial body weight 85 g) fed a semisynthetic diet containing 0.3% of cholesterol [1].
• Effect of pleuran (beta-glucan from Pleurotus ostreatus) in diet or drinking fluid on colitis in rats [2].

High impact information on Pleurotus

• A tryptophan neutral radical in the oxidized state of versatile peroxidase from Pleurotus eryngii: a combined multifrequency EPR and density functional theory study [3].
• In this study, a radical intermediate in the reaction of versatile peroxidase from the ligninolytic fungus Pleurotus eryngii with H(2)O(2) has been characterized by multifrequency (9.4 and 94 GHz) EPR and assigned to a tryptophan residue [3].
• Pleurotolysin, a novel sphingomyelin-specific two-component cytolysin from the edible mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus, assembles into a transmembrane pore complex [4].
• A novel white laccase from Pleurotus ostreatus [5].
• A heme-containing ascorbate oxidase from Pleurotus ostreatus [6].

Biological context of Pleurotus

• Manganese-enhanced biotransformation of atrazine by the white rot fungus Pleurotus pulmonarius and its correlation with oxidation activity [7].
• Previously, it has been demonstrated that the Pleurotus ostreatus laccase genes poxc and poxa1b are transcriptionally induced by copper, and several putative MREs were found in the promoter regions of these genes, which extend for about 400 nt upstream of the start codon (ATG) [8].
• AIMS: Enzyme kinetics of purified laccases from six different Pleurotus ostreatus strains were determined in the oxidation of syringaldazine, guaiacol and ABTS [9].
• The terminal protein of a linear mitochondrial plasmid is encoded in the N-terminus of the DNA polymerase gene in white-rot fungus Pleurotus ostreatus [10].
• The nucleotide sequence and putative amino acid sequence of MnP1 reveal its similarity to Pleurotus ostreatus MnP3 (62.5%), Lepista irina versatile peroxidase (VP) (61.8%) and Pleurotus eryngii VPs VPL2 and VPL1 (61.9% and 61.2%, respectively) [11].

Anatomical context of Pleurotus

• Ligninolytic characteristics of Pleurotus ostreatus strain F6 and its monokaryotic protoplast derivative P19 [12].
• Oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) reduces the activity of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA reductase in rat liver microsomes [13].

Associations of Pleurotus with chemical compounds

• This study investigates the possible role of a laccase and a FAD-dependent aryl alcohol oxidase (veratryl alcohol oxidase, VAO) excreted by the basidiomycete Pleurotus ostreatus [14].
• METHODS: To assess basidiospore allergen releasability, basidiospore allergens were extracted from disrupted spores and eluted from intact spores, and the allergenic potency of the extracts and eluates was compared in Calvatia cyathiformis, Psilocybe cubensis, Lentinus edodes, and Pleurotus ostreatus [15].
• Veratryl alcohol oxidases from the lignin-degrading basidiomycete Pleurotus sajor-caju [16].
• One protein is the propeptide of a serine protease, subtilisin BPN', and the other is Pleurotus ostreatus proteinase A inhibitor 1 (POIA1) [17].
• A study on reducing substrates of manganese-oxidizing peroxidases from Pleurotus eryngii and Bjerkandera adusta [18].

Gene context of Pleurotus

• Relation of IL-2, IL-3 and IL-4 with allergic asthma induced by spores of mushroom (Pleurotus sapidus) [19].
• We have purified and reconstituted a benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylating cytochrome P450 (P450) from microsomal fractions of the white rot fungus Pleurotus pulmonarius [20].
• Isolation, characterization, and expression patterns of a DMC1 homolog from the basidiomycete Pleurotus ostreatus [21].
• Our previous studies on the fruit body lectin of Pleurotus cornucopiae revealed the existence of three isolectins, composed of two homodimers and one heterodimer of 16- and 15-kDa subunits [22].
• Solution structure of POIA1 (Pleurotus ostreatus proteinase A inhibitor 1), which functions as an intramolecular chaperone and as an inhibitor to subtilisin, was determined [23].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Pleurotus

• Fractionation and characterization of a Polysaccharide from the sclerotia of Pleurotus tuber-regium by preparative size-exclusion chromatography [24].

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