Jin-Woo Jeong 1, Cheng-Yun Jin 2, Mun-Ock Kim 1, Jae-Yun Lee 1, Yung-Hyun Choi 2 and Jae-Dong Lee
1Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
2Department of Biochemistry, Dongeui University College of Oriental Medicine and Department of Biomaterial Control (BK21 program),
Dongeui University Graduate School, Busan 614-052, Korea
Correspondence to leejd@pusan.ac.kr
Korean Journal of Mycology (Kor J Mycol) June 30, 2009, 37(1):86-90.
https://doi.org/10.4489/kjm.2009.37.1.086
(Received June 16, 2008. Accepted February 10, 2009)
Published: June 30, 2009.
© The Korean Society of Mycology
The C. militaris belongs to entomopathogenic fungi, which have their specific sequences in internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS1 and ITS2) depending on species. In this study, to identify the phylogenetic relationship of the strain hybrided by mating of C. militaris, we compared DNA sequences of ITS regions and 5.8S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) repeat unit of hybrid strain and its parental strains. The result revealed that hybrid strains are C. militaris species. In addition, cordycepins produced by hybrid strains and other strains of C. militaris were analyzed by HPLC with 20 mM KH2PO4 of mobile phase and C-18 columns. The result indicated that the strain hybrided by mating produce higher concentration of phytochemical cordycepin than other C. militaris strains.
Cordycepin, Cordyceps militaris, HPLC analysis, RAPD