''Penicillium paxilli'' is an
anamorph
In mycology, the terms teleomorph, anamorph, and holomorph apply to portions of the life cycles of fungi in the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota:
*Teleomorph: the sexual reproductive stage (morph), typically a fruiting body.
*Anamorph: an ase ...
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saprophytic
Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs, and is most often associated with fungi ...
species of the genus ''
Penicillium
''Penicillium'' () is a genus of Ascomycota, ascomycetous fungus, fungi that is part of the mycobiome of many species and is of major importance in the natural environment, in food spoilage, and in food and drug production.
Some members of th ...
'' which produces
paxilline
Paxilline is a toxic, tremorgenic diterpene indole polycyclic alkaloid molecule produced by '' Penicillium paxilli ''which was first characterized in 1975. Paxilline is one of a class of tremorigenic mycotoxins, is a potassium channel blocker, ...
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paxisterol, ,
pyrenocine A,
paspaline B and
verruculogene.
[ ''Penicillium paxilli'' is used as a model to study the biochemistry of the indole-diterepene biosynthesis]
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paxilli
Fungi described in 1907
Fungus species