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Cunninghamella 
Cunninghamella echinulata Scientific classification 
Kingdom: Fungi Order: Mucorales Family: Cunninghamellaceae Genus: Cunninghamella
Matruchot, 1903Type species Cunninghamella africana
Matr. (1903)Cunninghamella is a genus of fungus in the Mucorales order, and the family Cunninghamellaceae.[1] Members of this genus are often used in studies investigating the metabolism of drugs, because these species metabolize a wide range of drugs in manners similar to mammalian enzyme systems.[2] Many species are also capable of oxidizing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, a class of stable organic molecules that tends to persist in the environment and contains many known carcinogenic and mutagenic compounds.[3]
It can grow on Sabouraud's agar.[4]
Species
The genus Cunninghamella contains 16 species:[5]
- C. bainieri
- C. bertholletiae
- C. binarieae
- C. blakesleeana
- C. clavata
- C. echinulata
- C. elegans
- C. homothallica
- C. intermedia
- C. multiverticillata
- C. phaeospora
- C. polymorpha
- C. septata
- C. A18
- C. CL023
- C. vesiculosa
See also
References
- ^ MeSH Cunninghamella
- ^ Asha S, Vidyavathi M (2009). "Cunninghamella--a microbial model for drug metabolism studies--a review". Biotechnol. Adv. 27 (1): 16–29. doi:10.1016/j.biotechadv.2008.07.005. PMID 18775773. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0734-9750(08)00087-6. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
- ^ Cerniglia, Carl E. (1992). "Biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons". Biodegradation 3: 351–368. doi:10.1007/BF00129093.
- ^ "Mycology Online -- Cunninghamella". http://www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au/Fungal_Descriptions/Zygomycetes/Cunninghamella/. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
- ^ "Cunninghamella". http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/4852. Retrieved 2009-03-17.
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