Penicillium piceum is an anamorph species of fungi in the genus Penicillium which can cause in rare cases chronic granulomatous disease.[1][2][3][4][5] This species has been isolated from human blood cultures and from pig lung tissue.[6] Penicillium piceum produces β-glucosidase[7]

Penicillium piceum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Order: Eurotiales
Family: Aspergillaceae
Genus: Penicillium
Species:
P. piceum
Binomial name
Penicillium piceum
Raper, K.B.; Fennell, D.I. 1948[1]
Type strain
ATCC 10519, CBS 361.48, IMI 040038, NRRL 1051[2]
Synonyms

Talaromyces piceus, Penicillium ilerdanum[1]

Further reading edit

  • Santos, P. E.; Piontelli, E.; Shea, Y. R.; Galluzzo, M. L.; Holland, S. M.; Zelazko, M. E.; Rosenzweig, S. D. (2006). "Penicillium piceuminfection: Diagnosis and successful treatment in chronic granulomatous disease". Medical Mycology. 44 (8): 749–53. doi:10.1080/13693780600967089. PMID 17127632.
  • Horre, R.; Gilges, S.; Breig, P.; Kupfer, B.; De Hoog, G. S.; Hoekstra, E.; Poonwan, N.; Schaal, K. P. (2001). "Case Report. Fungaemia due to Penicillium piceum, a member of the Penicillium marneffei complex". Mycoses. 44 (11–12): 502–4. doi:10.1046/j.1439-0507.2001.00710.x. PMID 11820265.
  • Eremin, A. N.; Metelitsa, D. I.; Moroz, I. V.; Pavlovskaya, Zh. I.; Mikhailova, R. V. (2002). "Kinetic Characterization of Extracellular Catalases from Penicillium piceum F-648 and Its Hydrogen Peroxide-Adapted Variants". Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology. 38 (4): 322. doi:10.1023/A:1016274803956.
  • Dubey, Saurabh; Patil, Ketki; Sharma, Pooja; Tandon, Ghanshyam D. (2015). "Penicillium piceum: A potential source for antimicrobial agents and β-lactamase inhibitors". Biologia. 70. doi:10.1515/biolog-2015-0013.
  • Gao, Le; Gao, Feng; Zhang, Dongyuan; Zhang, Can; Wu, Gaihong; Chen, Shulin (2013). "Purification and characterization of a new β-glucosidase from Penicillium piceum and its application in enzymatic degradation of delignified corn stover". Bioresource Technology. 147: 658–61. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2013.08.089. PMID 24025854.
  • Pavlovskaya, Zh. I.; Mikhailova, R. V.; Moroz, I. V.; Eremin, A. N. (2003). "Resistance of Penicillium piceum F-648 to Hydrogen Peroxide under Short-Term and Prolonged Oxidative Stress". Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology. 39: 24–29. doi:10.1023/A:1021737724373.
  • John F. Peberdy (2013). Penicillium and Acremonium. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-1489919861.

References edit

  1. ^ a b c MycoBank
  2. ^ a b UniProt
  3. ^ D.H. Howard (2002). Pathogenic Fungi in Humans and Animals. CRC Press. ISBN 978-0203909102.
  4. ^ ATCC
  5. ^ Santos, P. E.; Piontelli, E.; Shea, Y. R.; Galluzzo, M. L.; Holland, S. M.; Zelazko, M. E.; Rosenzweig, S. D. (2006). "Penicillium piceuminfection: Diagnosis and successful treatment in chronic granulomatous disease". Medical Mycology. 44 (8): 749–53. doi:10.1080/13693780600967089. PMID 17127632.
  6. ^ Errol Reiss; H. Jean Shadomy; G. Marshall Lyon (2011). Fundamental Medical Mycology. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1118101766.
  7. ^ Gao, Le; Gao, Feng; Jiang, Xukai; Zhang, Can; Zhang, Dongyuan; Wang, Lushan; Wu, Gaihong; Chen, Shulin (2014). "Biochemical characterization of a new β-glucosidase (Cel3E) from Penicillium piceum and its application in boosting lignocelluloses bioconversion and forming disaccharide inducers: New insights into the role of β-glucosidase". Process Biochemistry. 49 (5): 768. doi:10.1016/j.procbio.2014.02.012.