Articles by Taxonomic Group
Extraction of taxol, an anticancer drug from coelomycetous fungi Pestalotiopsis versicolor and Phyllosticta murrayicola
Mycologia Balcanica 6: 55–60 (2009)
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2548852
Published online: 28 August 2009
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2548852
Published online: 28 August 2009
Two different coelomycetous fungi were screened for the production of taxol, an anticancer drug. Taxol production was confirmed by following methods Ultra Violet (UV) spectroscopic analysis, Infra Red analysis (IR), High performance liquid chromatography analysis (HPLC) and Liquid chromatography mass spectrum (LC-MASS), and the taxol compared with authentic taxol. The fungal taxol was identical to authentic taxol. The taxol produced by the above fungi were tested against cancer A549 cell line.