Screening the endophytic flora of Wollemia nobilis for alternative paclitaxel sources

References

• Croteau , R . 2005 . Taxol biosynthesis and molecular genetics , The Netherlands : Terpnet, Wageningen .
   Google Scholar
• de Hoog , GS and van den Ende , A . 1998 . Molecular diagnostics of clinical strains of filamentous Basidomycetes . Mycoses. , 41 : 183 – 189 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gamborg , OL , Miller , RA and Ojima , V . 1968 . Nutrient requirements of suspension cultures of soybean root cells . Exp Cell Res. , 50 : 151 – 158 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Glass , NL and Donaldson , GC . 1995 . Development of primer sets designed for use with the PCR to amplify conserved genes from filamentous ascomycetes . Appl Environ Microbiol. , 61 : 1323 – 1330 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Grothaus , PG , Bignami , GS , O'Malley , S , Harada , KE , Byrnes , JB , Waller , DF , Raybould , TJ , McGuire , MT and Alvarado , B . 1995 . Taxane-specific monoclonal antibodies: Measurement of taxol, baccatin III, and ‘total taxanes’ in Taxus brevifolia extracts by enzyme immunoassay . J Nat Prod. , 58 : 1003 – 1014 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Grothaus , PG , Raybould , TJ , Bignami , GS , Lazo , CB and Byrnes , JB . 1993 . An enzyme immunoassay for the determination of taxol and taxanes in Taxus sp. tissues and human plasma . J Immunol Meth. , 158 : 5 – 15 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hill , KD . 1996 . The Wollemi pine: Discovering a living fossil . Nat Res. , 32 : 20 – 25 .
   Google Scholar
• Hines , PJ and Zahn , LM . 2009 . What's bugging plants? Introduction to special issue . Science. , 324 : 741
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kolfschoten , GM , Hulscher , TM , Duynam , MC , Pinedo , HM and Boven , E . 2002 . Variation in the kinetics of caspase-3 activation, Bcl-2 phosphorylation and apoptotic morphology in unselected human ovarian cancer cell lines as a response to docetaxel . Biochem Pharmacol. , 63 : 733 – 743 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kumaran , RS and Hur , B-K . 2009 . Screening of species of the endophytic fungus Phomopsis for the production of the anticancer drug taxol . Biotechnol Appl Biochem. , 54 : 21 – 30 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kumaran , RS , Muthumary , J and Hur , B-K . 2009 . Isolation and identification of an anticancer drug, taxol from Phyllosticta tabernaemontanae, a leaf spot fungus of an angiosperm, Wrightia tinctoria . J Microbiol. , 47 : 40 – 49 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kurland , CG , Canback , B and Berg , OG . 2003 . Horizontal gene transfer: A critical view . PNAS , 100 : 9658 – 9662 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Li , JY , Sidhu , RS , Bollon , A and Strobel , GA . 1998a . Stimulation of taxol production in liquid cultures of Pestalotiopsis microspora . Mycol Res. , 102 : 461 – 464 .
   Google Scholar
• Li , JY , Sidhu , RS , Ford , EJ , Long , DM , Hess , WM and Strobel , GA . 1998b . The induction of taxol production in the endophytic fungus Periconia sp. from Torreya grandifolia . J Ind Microbiol Biotech. , 20 : 259 – 264 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Li , Y-C , Tao , W-Y and Cheng , L . 2009 . Paclitaxel production using co-culture of Taxus suspension cells and paclitaxel-producing endophytic fungi in a co-bioreactor . Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. , 83 : 233 – 239 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Masclaux , F , Gueho , E , de Hoog , GS and Christen , R . 1995 . Phylogenetic relationship of human-pathogenic Cladosporium (Xylohypha) species inferred from partial LS rRNA sequences . J Med Vet Mycol. , 33 : 327 – 338 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Noh , M , Yang , J , Kim , K , Yoon , Y , Kang , K , Han , H , Him , S and Park , H . 1999 . Isolation of a novel microorganism Pestalotia heterocornis, producing paclitaxel . Biotech Bioeng. , 64 : 620 – 623 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• NSW Department of Environment and Conservation . 2006 . Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) Recovery Plan . NSW Department of Environment and Conservation, Hurstville NSW. DEC 2006/519, ISBN 1 920 887 63 6
   Google Scholar
• O'Donnell , K and Cigelnik , E . 1997 . Two divergent intragenomic rDNA ITS2 types within a monophyletic lineage of the fungus Fusarium are nonorthologous . Mol Phylogenet Evol. , 7 : 103 – 116 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rosewich , UL and Kistler , HC . 2000 . Role of horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of fungi . Annu Rev Phytopathol. , 38 : 325 – 363 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Staniek , A , Woerdenbag , HJ and Kayser , O . 2008 . Endophytes: Exploiting biodiversity for the improvement of natural product-based drug discovery . J Plant Interact. , 3 : 75 – 93 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Staniek , A , Woerdenbag , HJ and Kayser , O . 2009 . Taxomyces andreanae: A presumed paclitaxel producer demystified? . Planta Med. , 75 : 1561 – 1566 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stierle , A , Strobel , GA and Stierle , DB . 1993 . Taxol and taxane production by Taxomyces andreanae, an endophytic fungus of Pacific yew . Science. , 260 : 214 – 216 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Strobel , GA , Hess , WM , Ford , E , Sidhu , RS and Yang , X . 1996 . Taxol from fungal endophytes and the issue of biodiversity . J Ind Microbiol. , 17 : 417 – 423 .
   Google Scholar
• Strobel , GA , Hess , WM , Li , JY , Ford , E , Sears , J , Sidhu , RS and Summerell , B . 1997 . Pestalotiopsis guepinii, a taxol-producing endophyte of the Wollemi pine, Wollemia nobilis . Austr J Bot. , 45 : 1073 – 1082 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Strobel GA , Stierle A , Stierle DB . 1994 . Taxol production by Taxomyces andreanae . US Patent 5322779 .
   Google Scholar
• Uecker , FA . 1988 . A world list of Phomopsis names with notes on nomenclature, morphology, and biology . Mycol Mem. , 13 : 1 – 323 .
   Google Scholar
• van Uden , W , Pras , N and Maingré , TM . 1990 . The accumulation of podophyllotoxin-β-D-glucoside by cell suspension cultures derived from the conifer Callitris drummondii . Plant Cell Rep. , 9 : 257 – 260 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Walker , K and Croteau , R . 2001 . Taxol biosynthetic genes . Phytochemistry. , 58 : 1 – 7 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wani , MC , Taylor , HL , Wall , ME , Coggon , P and McPhail , AT . 1971 . Plant antitumor agents IV. The isolation and structure of taxol, a novel antileukemic and antitumor agent from Taxus brevifolia . J Am Chem Soc. , 93 : 2325 – 2327 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weber , E . 2002 . The Lecythophora-Coniochaeta complex I. Morphological studies on Lecythophora species isolated from Picea abies . Nova Hedvigia. , 74 : 159 – 185 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• White TJ , Burns T , Lee S , Taylor J. 1990 . Amplification and direct sequencing of fungal ribosomal RNA genes for phylogenetics . In: Innis MA , Gelfand GH , Sninsky JJ , White TJ PCR protocols: A guide to methods and applications . San Diego, CA : Academic Press . 315 322 .
   Google Scholar
• Wildung , MR and Croteau , R . 1996 . A cDNA clone for taxadiene synthase, the diterpene cyclase that catalyzes the committed step of taxol biosynthesis . J Biol Chem. , 271 : 9201 – 9204 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zalar , P , de Hoog , GS , Schroers , H-J , Crous , PW , Groenewald , JZ and Gunde-Cimerman , N . 2007 . Phylogeny and ecology of the ubiquitous saprobe Cladosporium sphaerospermum, with descriptions of seven new species from hypersaline environments . Stud Mycol. , 58 : 157 – 183 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhou , X , Wang , Z , Jiang , K , Wei , Y , Lin , J , Sun , X and Tang , K . 2007 . Screening of taxol-producing endophytic fungi from Taxus chinensis var. mairei . Prikl Biokhim Mikrobiol. , 43 : 490 – 494 .
   PubMedGoogle Scholar