Geon Woo Lee 1, Hye Young Kim 1, Hyun Hur 2, Min Woong Lee 2, Mi Ja Shim 3, U-Youn Lee 1 and Tae Soo Lee 1*
1Department of Biology, University of Incheon, Incheon 402-749, Korea
2Department of Biology, Dongguk University, Seoul 100-715, Korea
3Department of Life Science, University of Seoul, Seoul 130-743, Korea
Correspondence to tslee@incheon.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) June 30, 2008, 36(1):66-74.
https://doi.org/10.4489/kjm.2008.36.1.066
(Received May 20, 2008. Accepted June 8, 2008)
Published: June 30, 2008.
© The Korean Society of Mycology
Tremella aurantialba, one of edible and medicinal mushrooms belonging to Tremellaceae of Basidiomycota, has been known to have outstanding curing effects on coughing, tracheitis and hypertension of humans and antitumor activity on the sarcoma 180 and Erhrlich carcinoma of mice. Neutral saline soluble (0.9% NaCl), hot water soluble and methanol soluble substances (hereinafter referred to Fr. NaCl, Fr. HW and Fr. MeOH, respectively) were extracted from fruiting body of the mushroom. In vitro cytotoxicity tests showed that all crude polysaccharides extracted from the fruiting body were not cytotoxic against cancer cell lines such as RAW 309 CR.1 and Sarcoma 180 at the concentration of 2000 µg/ml. Intraperitoneal injection with crude polysaccharides exhibited life prolongation effect of 11.1~66.7% in mice inoculated with Sarcoma 180. Fr. MeOH improved the immunopotentiation activity of B lymphocyte by increasing the alkaline phosphatase activity by 1.16 folds at the concentration of 200 µg/ml. In case of Fr. HW, the numbers of peritoneal exudate cells and circulating leukocytes were increased by 1.42 and 2.87 folds, respectively.
Antitumor effect, Crude polysaccharides, Immuno-modulatory, Tremella aurantialba