Induction of steroidal hydroxylase activity by plant defence compounds in the filamentous fungus Cochliobolus lunatus

Chemosphere

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 853-863

  Vitas, Marko ^a   Smith, Kelvin E ^b   Plavec, Janez ^c   Kesselmeier, Jürgen ^d   Pajič, Tadej ^a   Ferlan, Andrej ^e   Žigon, Dušan ^f   Kelly, Steven L ^g   Komel, Radovan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e Institute of Pharmacy and Drug Research Ljubljana   (Slovenia)

^f JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^g ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Filamentous fungi; P450; Progesterone; Saponins; Tomatidine; Tomatine

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; PROGESTERONE; SAPONIN; SOLANIDINE; STEROID MONOOXYGENASE; TOMATINE; TRITERPENE;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COCHLIOBOLUS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; FUNGUS; HYPOTHESIS; METABOLITE; PLANT LEAF; PLANT ROOT;

COCHLIOBOLUS LUNATUS;

EID: 0033081473     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(98)00229-X     Document Type: Article

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