• Journal of Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.61 no.1
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• pp.69-73
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• 2018

Oak mushroom (Lentinus edodes) is cultivated by using oak logs and sawdust medium. Green mold (Trichoderma) infection on these media severely suppresses the growth of oak mushroom. Usages of antibiotics and chemicals are not generally allowed to control of green mold since the mushroom is a fresh food. Tolaasin and its analogues, peptide toxins secreted by Pseudomonas tolaasii, have the antifungal activity and they have been successful to control the green mold disease. When the green mold, Trichoderma harzianum H1, was cultured in the presence of these toxins, the growth of fungus was effectively suppressed. In sawdust media, when the bacterial culture supernatants were sprayed on the aerial hyphae of green molds, the fungal growth was completely suppressed. Particularly, the antifungal activity was greatly increased by the combined culture extracts of P. tolaasii 6264 and HK11 strains. Therefore, these bacterial strains and their peptide toxins were able to suppress the growth of green molds and these can be good candidates to prevent from Trichoderma disease in oak mushroom cultivation.

• The Korean Journal of Mycology
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• v.23 no.3 s.74
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• pp.232-237
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• 1995

Antifungal protein from the hemolymph of larvae of Tenebrio molitor in Korea was partially purified by $C_{18}$ open column chromatography and assayed for the activity spectrum using 3 kinds of yeast and 4 kinds of filamentous fungi. The crude antifungal protein showed static activity for a broad range of fungal species. Weak cidal effects were observed in growing yeast type cells, including Candida and Saccharomyces. The affected cells were changed from ovoid to swollen and spherical form in shape. For filamentous fungi including Aspergillus and Fusarium, the crude antifungal protein affected the spore germination and the hyphal growth but not the viability significantly.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.180-186
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• 1991

A water soluble antifungal antibiotic, Solumycin, was separated from the culture broth of Streptomyces sp. LAM-593, isolated from soil, by butanol extraction, alumina-, 1st and 2nd Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography. The substance was pale yellow crystal which gave a single spot at Rf value 0.24 with ethanol-ammonia water-water (8:1:1), 0.46 with butanol-ethanol-water (5:1:4), 0.84 with 50% methanol on silica gel TLC. It was dissolved well in water, methanol and acidic aq. butanol but not in ethanol, acetone, ethyl acetate, chloroform. acetic acid etc., and gave positive Fehling and Molish reaction. The UV spectrum in methanol showed absorption at 342, 361, 380, and 404 nm. The antibiotic was active against fungi such as Candide, Cryptococcus, Saccharomyces, Trichophyton and Trichosporon, but not to bacteria such as Bacillus, Escherichia and Staphylococcus.

• Environmental Analysis Health and Toxicology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.131-136
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• 2003

Anti-fungal materials producing bacteria were isolated from soil by bennett's agar and actinomycete isola-tion agar medium. The bacterla were identified as synonym of Actinomycetes. Based on the data obtained from its morphological and colony characteristics. The medium for production of anti-fungal materials was YEME (yeast extract 4 g, malt extract l0g, glucose 4 g, D.W 1ι, pH 7.0${\pm}$0.2). The culture conditions were 30$^{\circ}C$, 7 days and 200 rpm in shaking incubator. No. 13, No. 15 and No.28 strains were produced anti-fungal materials against fungal plant pathogens. Specially, The No. 28 strain showed a powerful biopesticide activity and broad spectrum effects of anti -fungal materials on Collectrichum coccodes, Botrytis cinerea, Cladosporium cucumerinum, Didymella bryoniae.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.335-337
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• 1997

In this study, we show a convenient MTT assay for detect the susceptibility of yeast-like form of Trichosporon beigelii against antifungal agents. This assay was developed based on mitocondrial respiration by determining reduction of 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) to formazan. Cells of T beigelii are seeded into 96-well microtiter plates, and antifungal agents, amphotericin B, magainin and CA-ME hybrid peptide were added with various concentrations. After 24 hr incubation, MTT was added, then incubations were continued for 4 hr. Formazan formation was quantified photometrically after extraction of the formazan with acid sodium dodesyl sulfate (SDS). From this assay, we could obtained MICs of antifungal agents against T. beigelii. The presented method can easily be used as an effective methods to assess the antiftingal action of various agents on yeasts with minimal amounts of antifungal agents.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.219-225
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• 2008

For the production of an antifungal compound, one strain (I-8) was selected from approximately 400 strains isolated from various soil samples. The optimum carbon source, nitrogen source and pH culture conditions for the production of the antifungal compound were investigated. ISP No. 2 medium (yeast extract 0.4%, malt extract 1% and dextrose 0.4%, at pH 8) was determined to be the optimum medium. Strain I-8 showed broad antifungal activity against the plant pathogenic fungi tested, including Sclerotinia sclerotiorum KACC 41065, as well as cellulase and chitinase activities in an agar plate assay. The extraction of antifungal compounds was performed using ethyl ether and ethyl acetate. In a culture broth of strain I-8, the ethyl acetate extract exhibited effective growth inhibition against 14 of the 20 phytopathogenic fungi tested. By mixing the ethyl acetate extract from I-8 with the ethyl ether extract from the fungus 13-16, which shows specific antifungal activity against Colletotrichum orbiculare KACC 40808, the antifungal activity of I-8 against phytopathogenic fungi was confirmed to be slightly increased. Strain I-8 showed strong growth inhibition against 16 phytopathogenic strains in agar plate tests.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.16-21
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• 2012

Since many pesticides cause various health and environmental problems, alternative measures to replace them are needed, and the bacteria producing the antifungal substances can be one of them. In this study, several rhizobacteria were isolated and their antifungal activities against some important plant pathogenic fungi were examined. Pseudomonas otitidis TK1 and Paenibacillus peoriae RhAn32 inhibited the growth of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. niveum and F. oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici by 49.8% and 45.6%, and 45.1% and 48.3%, respectively compared to those of the control. P. peoriae RhAn32 also decreased the growth of F. oxysporum f. sp. raphani by 37.5%. This growth inhibition might be due to the production of antifungal substances, such as siderophore, hydrogen cyanide and chitinase, which were produced by these rhizobacteria. P. otitidis TK1 also produced plant growth hormones indole acetic acid and indole butyric acid at $293.41{\mu}g/mg$ protein and $418.53{\mu}g/mg$ protein, respectively. When P. otitidis TK1 and B. cereus TK2 were inoculated together with F. oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici to the 4 weeks grown tomato seedlings and incubated additional 8 weeks, the stem lengths of tomato increased up to 45.7% and 55.3% and root lengths were raised to 64.9% and 60.8%, respectively than those of the control group. The wet weights increased by 118% and 182%, respectively compared to the control group.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.395-398
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• 1992

In order to study the influence of a 6'-methyl group in ring C of griseofulvin ${\underline{(1)}}$ on the fungicidal activity, 6'-methyl group was replaced with a larger phenyl group as $({\pm})-6'-phenylgriseofulvin$ ${\underline{(3)}}$, $({\pm})-6'-epiphenylgriseofulvin$ ${\underline{(4)}}$, synthesized by a Diels-Alder cycloaddition. Their biological activities were examined against Botrytis allii (IFO 9430) and B. cinerea (AHU 9573). $({\pm})-6'-Phenylgriseofulvin $ ${\underline{(3)}}$ showed high activity in $25\;{\mu}g/disc$.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.227-232
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• 2008

Biological antagonists of Phytophthora capsici were isolated from soil in Gyeongbuk, Korea. Among the isolated bacteria, a Bacillus sp. was identified from l6S rDNA sequence analysis and named Bacillus sp. AM-651. Bacillus sp. AM-65l strain which can strongly a antifungal activity against Phytophthora capsici. Culture conditions for the maximum production of the antagonistic substance were optimized. The production of antibiotic were high on modified Davis mineral medium pH 7 at $30^{\circ}C$. The medium for highest production of the agonistic substance optimized. It is composed the best activity on glucose, $(NH_4)_2SO_4$ and $K_2HPO_4$ at 0.5%, 0.1%, and 0.7%, respectively. By time course of culture solution selected Bacillus sp. AM-65l, the culture solution after 48hrs had strongly growth inhibition rate against P. capsici. And culture solution of Bacillus sp. AM-651 was stable within a pH range $5{\sim}11$ and temperature range $4{\sim}70^{\circ}C$. Bacillus sp. AM-651 cultured broth shown fungal growth inhibitory activity against B. sorokiniana, B. cinerea, R. solani avove and beyond P. capsici and comparatively showed a high activity against C. gloeosporioides, B. dothidea, B. cinerea and F. graminearum by agar diffusion method.

• The Korean Journal of Mycology
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• v.24 no.4 s.79
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• pp.310-321
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• 1996

Five strains AF027, AF069, AF2001, AF2011 and SD02 of Pseudomonas cepacia were isolated from soil, and the antifungal cyclic lipopeptides(CLP) i.e, CLP027A, CLP069A, Cepacidine A, CLP2011A and CLP02A were produced from each strains, respectively. Nitrogen and carbon sources in media were proved to be important factors for the production of CLP and among them, polypeptone-S, glucose and fructose were the most effective. It appeared that compounds CLP027A and CLP069A were identical with Cepacidine A and Xylocandine A, respectively. contain aspartic acid as amino acid component, are differentiated from Xylocandine A containing asparagine. Although molecular weight, amino acid composition and UV spectrum of CLP2011A and CLP02A are same with those of Cepacidine A, it is postulated that these compounds are not identical with Cepacidine A when the antifungal spectra and antifungal activity were compared to those of Cepacidine A.