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Ultrastructural Studies on the Autolysis of Coprinellus congregatus  

Choi Hyung-Tae (Department of Biotechnology, Inje University)
Cho Chung-Won (Department of Biochemistry, Kangwon University)
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Korean Journal of Microbiology / v.41, no.4, 2005 , pp. 312-315 More about this Journal
Abstract
Coprinellus congregatus, known as an inky cap, is autolysed into ink soon after the maturation of the mushrooms. Electron microscopy was used to examine the ultrastructural changes associated with the autolysis as an initial step to understand the role of hydrolytic enzymes in this process. During the early stages of maturation of the mushrooms, most of cytoplasm of hymenial and subhymenial tissues seemed to be transported to the developing basidiospores. The depletion of cytoplasm within the tissues and the maturation of the basidiospores may initiate the degradation of the cell walls of the tissues. Both hymenial and subhymenial tissues seemed to degraded at the same time. This study suggested that the critical steps in the autolysis of mushrooms is not the degradation of the cytoplasm, but the degradation of the cell wall by hydrolytic enzymes such as chitinases.
Keywords
autolysis; Coprinellus congregatus; electron microscopy;
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