Scientific name Cunninghamella | Family Cunninghamellaceae Higher classification Cunninghamellaceae | |
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Similar Absidia, Cunninghamella bertholletiae, Cunninghamella echinulata, Mucorales, Rhizomucor | ||
Bacteria on the fungal highway pseudomonas putida moving along hyphae of cunninghamella elegans
Cunninghamella is a genus of Fungi in the order Mucorales, and the family Cunninghamellaceae. The genus was circumscribed by French mycologist Alphonse Louis Paul Matruchot in 1903.
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- Bacteria on the fungal highway pseudomonas putida moving along hyphae of cunninghamella elegans
- Cunninghamella sp
- Species
- Uses
- References
Cunninghamella sp
Species
As of 2015, Index Fungorum lists 13 valid species of Cunninghamella:
Uses
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. 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.
The presence of a cytochrome P-450 has been demonstrated in C. bainieri.
References
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