Our Biodiversity =
Your Chemical and Pharmacological
Diversity
FUNGI
The approach used for isolation has enabled us to assemble great diversity
with Basidiomycete, Ascomycete, Zygomycete and Deuteromycete representation.
A partial list of slow growing, less common fungi in our collection
include Acremonium, Arthrinium, Beltraniella, Bispora, Chalara,
Choridium, Codinaea, Colletotrichum, Drechslera, Epicoccum, Exophiala,
Fusidium, Geotrichum, Gilmaniella, Monocllium, Nigrospora,
Nodulisporium, Papulaspora, Phialophora, Pithomyces, Rhinocladiella,
Scolecobasidium, Thozetalla, Verticilium, Wallemia and Wardomyces.
The fast growing, commonly isolated genera includes Alternaria,
Aspergillus, Aureobasidium, Cladosporium, Oidiodendron, Penicllium and Trichoderma.
Many isolates remain unidentified and the collection undoubtedly contains
fungi that have not been described the literature.
PHARMACOLOGY
Fungal metabolites showing activity in screens and assays addressing
the following have been discovered from the MSX fungal collection.
Infectious diseases including bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic,
herbicides and insecticides, cancer, diabetes and other metabolic disorders,
transcription regulators against a wide variety of targets for blood
disorders such as anemia and sickle cell anemia, CNS associated targets,
etc.
