Premium
Mycosporine‐glutaminol‐glucoside, a UV‐absorbing compound of two Rhodotorula yeast species
Author(s) -
Sommaruga Ruben,
Libkind Diego,
van Broock Maria,
Whitehead Kenia
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
yeast
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.923
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1097-0061
pISSN - 0749-503X
DOI - 10.1002/yea.1148
Subject(s) - yeast , biology , rhodotorula , glucoside , high performance liquid chromatography , botany , mass spectrometry , chemotaxonomy , chromatography , biochemistry , taxonomy (biology) , chemistry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
High‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), alone or in combination with mass spectrometry (MS), was used to screen the basidiomycetous yeasts Rhodotorula minuta and R . slooffiae isolated from lakes for the presence of UV‐absorbing compounds. Mycosporine‐glutaminol‐glucoside (maximum absorption, 310 nm), a UV‐photoprotective mycosporine known in terrestrial fungi, was the major UV‐absorbing compound found in these species. This is the first identification of a mycosporine in yeasts. The presence of this compound seems to be a promising chemotaxonomical marker for yeast systematics. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.