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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS
Volume 251, Issue 1, Pages 9-17Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.07.039
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ergot alkaloids; clavines; mycotoxin; Neotyphodium; Claviceps; Aspergillus fumigatus
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Ergot alkaloids are a diverse family of indole-derived mycotoxins that collectively have activities against a variety of organisms including bacteria, nematodes, insects, and mammals. Different fungi accumulate different, often characteristic, profiles of ergot alkaloids rather than a single pathway end product. These ergot alkaloid profiles result from inefficiency in the pathway leading to accumulation of certain intermediates or diversion of intermediates into shunts along the pathway. The inefficiency generating these ergot alkaloid profiles may have been selected for as a means of accumulating a diversity of ergot alkaloids, potentially contributing in different ways to benefit the producing fungus. (c) 2005 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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