Abstract
This study presents a comprehensive analysis of fungal polyamines, using high-performance liquid chromatography and high-performance gas chromatography. The analysis involves acid-extracted polyamines from the fruit bodies of 425 mushroom species, with calculations provided as moles per wet weight. Previous reports, denoted as “Polyamine analyses of mushrooms I-IV”, detail these findings. In this final installment, labeled as “Polyamine analyses of mushrooms V”, polyamines of the fruit bodies or cultured mycelia of 5 ascomycetous mushrooms, 23 basidiomycetous mushrooms, 9 zygomycetous molds, and 3 chytridiomycetous molds, were newly analyzed and compared to the polyamine profiles of some related species previously analyzed. Although filamentous fungi of the subphylum Pezizomycotina of the phylum Ascomycota were found to contain putrescine and spermidine, the mushrooms of the subphylum additionally contained homospermidine and spermine. In the mushrooms of the subphylum Agricomycotina of the phylum Basidiomycota, species containing spermine and thermospermine, and species containing homospermidine and canavalmine in addition to putrescine and spermidine, were found. The cultured mycelia of the 12 molds belonging to the former phyla Zygomycota and Chytridiomycota (newly divided into five phyla and three phyla, respectively) contained putrescine, spermidine, and spermine.
