11. TERPENOIDS: METABOLISM
615
holds true for the sterols, of which the following have been found to
date: ergosterol, zymosterol, dihydro- and dehydroergosterol, cerevisterol, ascosterol, and fungisterol (69). In Penicillium westlingii the
sterol content may be as high as 2.2% of dry weight.
Besides sterols, triterpenes are present in many fungi. Thus eburicoic
acid is present in a number of hymenomycetes, up to 20% of dry weight
of Polyporus eucalyptorum mycelium (74). Other triterpenes from fungi
include polyporenic acids A, B, and C (Polyporus spp. and Poria cocos)
as well as lanostadienol.
The emergence of terpenes and diterpenes is noteworthy (disregarding the phytol of chlorophyll-containing plants). Thus mycelianamide (CV), which contains an aliphatic terpene residue, was found in
CH,-o
CH,
// \\ CH:
OH
O
\
//
N-C
\
CH—CH 3
\
/
3
C—N
//
\
O
OH
=cf
(CV)
TABLE IV
CONSTITUENTS OP SOME Podocarpus AND Dacrydium SPECIES"
Genera and species
Podocarpus
totara
totara var. hallii
macrophylla
ferrugineus
spicatus
dacrydioides
cupressinum
Dacrydium
cupressinum
colensoi
hiforme
hidwillii
kirkii
Section
Eupodocarpus
Eupodocarpus
Eupodocarpus
Stachycarpus
Stachycarpus
Dacrycarpus
Dacrycarpus
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ +
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ +
+
+
+
+ +
° Data from Erdtman (83)
ie
Phyllocladene
Rimuene
Ferruginol
gr-Ketoferruginol
Totarol
Ι
ο
τ
β
ί
ο
ί
γ
χ
ο
ι
ο
χ
Η
Podocarpic acid
Conidendrin
Matairesinol
Manool
Manoyl oxide
Ketomanoyl oxk
615
holds true for the sterols, of which the following have been found to
date: ergosterol, zymosterol, dihydro- and dehydroergosterol, cerevisterol, ascosterol, and fungisterol (69). In Penicillium westlingii the
sterol content may be as high as 2.2% of dry weight.
Besides sterols, triterpenes are present in many fungi. Thus eburicoic
acid is present in a number of hymenomycetes, up to 20% of dry weight
of Polyporus eucalyptorum mycelium (74). Other triterpenes from fungi
include polyporenic acids A, B, and C (Polyporus spp. and Poria cocos)
as well as lanostadienol.
The emergence of terpenes and diterpenes is noteworthy (disregarding the phytol of chlorophyll-containing plants). Thus mycelianamide (CV), which contains an aliphatic terpene residue, was found in
CH,-o
CH,
// \\ CH:
OH
O
\
//
N-C
\
CH—CH 3
\
/
3
C—N
//
\
O
OH
=cf
(CV)
TABLE IV
CONSTITUENTS OP SOME Podocarpus AND Dacrydium SPECIES"
Genera and species
Podocarpus
totara
totara var. hallii
macrophylla
ferrugineus
spicatus
dacrydioides
cupressinum
Dacrydium
cupressinum
colensoi
hiforme
hidwillii
kirkii
Section
Eupodocarpus
Eupodocarpus
Eupodocarpus
Stachycarpus
Stachycarpus
Dacrycarpus
Dacrycarpus
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ +
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ +
+
+
+
+ +
° Data from Erdtman (83)
ie
Phyllocladene
Rimuene
Ferruginol
gr-Ketoferruginol
Totarol
Ι
ο
τ
β
ί
ο
ί
γ
χ
ο
ι
ο
χ
Η
Podocarpic acid
Conidendrin
Matairesinol
Manool
Manoyl oxide
Ketomanoyl oxk