Penicillium piceum

Penicillium piceum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Order:	Eurotiales
Family:	Trichocomaceae
Genus:	Penicillium
Species:	P. piceum
Binomial name
Penicillium piceum Raper, K.B.; Fennell, D.I. 1948[1]
Type strain
ATCC 10519, CBS 361.48, IMI 040038, NRRL 1051[2]
Synonyms
Talaromyces piceus, Penicillium ilerdanum[1]

Penicillium piceum is an anamorph species of the genus of Penicillium which can cause in rare cases chronic granulomatous disease.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} This species has been isolated from human blood cultures and from pig lung tissue.^[6] Penicillium piceum produces β-glucosidase^[7]

Further reading

• Santos, P. E.; Piontelli, E.; Shea, Y. R.; Galluzzo, M. L.; Holland, S. M.; Zelazko, M. E.; Rosenzweig, S. D. (2006). "Penicillium piceuminfection: Diagnosis and successful treatment in chronic granulomatous disease". Medical Mycology 44 (8): 749. doi:10.1080/13693780600967089. PMID 17127632.
• Horre, R.; Gilges, S.; Breig, P.; Kupfer, B.; De Hoog, G. S.; Hoekstra, E.; Poonwan, N.; Schaal, K. P. (2001). "Case Report. Fungaemia due to Penicillium piceum, a member of the Penicillium marneffei complex". Mycoses 44 (11–12): 502. doi:10.1046/j.1439-0507.2001.00710.x. PMID 11820265.
• Eremin, A. N.; Metelitsa, D. I.; Moroz, I. V.; Pavlovskaya, Zh. I.; Mikhailova, R. V. (2002). "Kinetic Characterization of Extracellular Catalases from Penicillium piceum F-648 and Its Hydrogen Peroxide-Adapted Variants". Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology 38 (4): 322. doi:10.1023/A:1016274803956.
• Dubey, Saurabh; Patil, Ketki; Sharma, Pooja; Tandon, Ghanshyam D. (2015). "Penicillium piceum: A potential source for antimicrobial agents and β-lactamase inhibitors". Biologia 70. doi:10.1515/biolog-2015-0013.
• Gao, Le; Gao, Feng; Zhang, Dongyuan; Zhang, Can; Wu, Gaihong; Chen, Shulin (2013). "Purification and characterization of a new β-glucosidase from Penicillium piceum and its application in enzymatic degradation of delignified corn stover". Bioresource Technology 147: 658–61. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2013.08.089. PMID 24025854.
• Pavlovskaya, Zh. I.; Mikhailova, R. V.; Moroz, I. V.; Eremin, A. N. (2003). "Resistance of Penicillium piceum F-648 to Hydrogen Peroxide under Short-Term and Prolonged Oxidative Stress". Applied Biochemistry and Microbiology 39: 24. doi:10.1023/A:1021737724373.
• John F. Peberdy (2013). Penicillium and Acremonium. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 1489919864.

See also

• List of Penicillium species

References

1. MycoBank
2. UniProt
3. D.H. Howard (2002). Pathogenic Fungi in Humans and Animals. CRC Press. ISBN 0203909100.
4. ATCC
5. Santos, P. E.; Piontelli, E.; Shea, Y. R.; Galluzzo, M. L.; Holland, S. M.; Zelazko, M. E.; Rosenzweig, S. D. (2006). "Penicillium piceuminfection: Diagnosis and successful treatment in chronic granulomatous disease". Medical Mycology 44 (8): 749. doi:10.1080/13693780600967089. PMID 17127632.
6. Errol Reiss, H. Jean Shadomy, G. Marshall Lyon (2011). Fundamental Medical Mycology. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 1118101766.
7. Gao, Le; Gao, Feng; Jiang, Xukai; Zhang, Can; Zhang, Dongyuan; Wang, Lushan; Wu, Gaihong; Chen, Shulin (2014). "Biochemical characterization of a new β-glucosidase (Cel3E) from Penicillium piceum and its application in boosting lignocelluloses bioconversion and forming disaccharide inducers: New insights into the role of β-glucosidase". Process Biochemistry 49 (5): 768. doi:10.1016/j.procbio.2014.02.012.

External identifiers for Penicillium piceum
Encyclopedia of Life	190577