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. 2022 Apr 4;21(3):38. doi: 10.1007/s11557-022-01790-4

Table 2.

List of fungal PQs that have been discovered and their producers

PQs’ class Perylenequinone Producer Source Reference
Class A 1) 3,6,6a,9,10-pentahydroxy-7,8-epoxy-4-oxo-4,5,6,6a,6b,7,8,9-octahydroperylene Alternaria sp.

Endophytic fungus from

Pinus ponderosa

(Tantry et al. 2018)
2) 3,6,6a,7,10-pentahydroxy-4,9-dioxo-4,5,6,6a,6b,7,8,9-octahydroperylene (Tantry et al. 2018)

3) altertoxin I

4) altertoxin II

5) altertoxin III

Alternaria alternata (Stack and Prival 1986)

6) 6-methoxy-3,6a,7,10-tetrahydroxy-4,9-dioxo-4,5,6,6a,6b,7,8,9-octahydroperylene

7) 3,6a,9,10-tetrahydroxy-7,8-epoxy-4-oxo-4,5,6,6a,6b,7,8,9-octahydroperylene

8) 6-methoxy-3,6a,9,10-tetrahydroxy-7,8-epoxy-4-oxo-4,5,6,6a,6b,7,8,9-octahydroperylene

9) dehydroaltertoxin I

altertoxin I (3)

Alternaria sp.

Endophytic fungus from

Pinus ponderosa

(Idris et al. 2015)

10) altertoxin VII

11) butyl xanalterate

Alternaria sp. SCSIO41014 Sponge-derived fungus (Pang et al. 2018)

12) alterlosin I

13) alterlosin II

Alternaria alternata Pathogenic fungus from Centaurea maculosa, (Stierle et al. 1989)

14) 8β-chloro-3,6aα,7β,9β,10-pentahydroxy-9,8,7,6 atetrahydroperylen-4(6aH)-one

15) alterperylenol

16) dihydroalterperylenol

Alternaria sp. M6

Aspergillus fumigatus D

Halotolerant fungus

Endophytic of Edgeworthia chrysantha.

(Zhang et al. 2012)

(Zhang et al. 2017)

17) , 7-epi-8-hydroxyaltertoxin I

18) 6-epi- stemphytriol

19) stemphyperylenol

altertoxin I (3)

Alternaria alternata

Setophoma sp.

Marine endophytic fungus from algal species of the genus Laurencia. (Gao et al. 2009; Bazioli et al. 2020)
20) alteichin Alternaria eichhorniae Phytopathogenic fungus (Robeson et al. 1984)
21) stemphyltoxin III Alternaria alternata (Davis and Stack 1991)

22) 1,4,6b,7,10-pentahydroxy-1,2,6b,7,8,12b-hexahydroperylene-3,9-dione

23) 1,4,9,12a-tetrahydroxy-12-methoxy-1,2,11,12,12a,12b-hexahydroperylene-3,10-dione

Alternaria tenuissima SS77 Endophytic fungus (Chagas et al. 2016)
24) 1,4,9-trihydroxy-1,2-dihydroperylene-3,10-dione
25) 4,9-dihydroxyperylene-3, l0-quinone

Bulgaria inquinans

Daldinia concentrica

Thamnomyces sp.

Phylacia sp.

Cenococcum geophilum

Rhopalostroma sp.

(Anderson and Murray 1956; Weiss et al. 1987; Stadler et al. 2004; Itoh et al. 2012; Wendt et al. 2018)
26) 4,9-dihydroxy-1,2,11,12-tetrahydroperylene-3,10-quinone Bulgaria inquinans (Xian et al. 2006)

27) methylated 12-epi-stemphytriol

alterperylenol (15)

dihydroalterperylenol (16)

Curvularia lunata LBQM-04 (Cruz et al. 2020)

28) stemphyltoxin I

29) stemphyltoxin IV

altertoxin II (4)

stemphyltoxin III (21)

Stemphylium botryosum (Podlech et al. 2014)
Class B 30) cercosporin

Cercospora kikuchii

C. hayii

(Kuyama and Tamura 1957; Mumma et al. 1973; Mastrangelopoulou et al. 2019)
31) phleichrome Cladosporium phlei Pathogenic fungus of Phleum pretense (Seto et al. 2005)

32) ent-isopheichrome

33) cladochrome A

34) cladochrome B

Cladosporium cucumerinum Pathogen (Arnone et al. 1988)

35) cladochrome C

36) cladochrome D

37) cladochrome E

Cladosporium cladosporioides (Arnone et al., 1990)

38) cladochrome F

39) cladochrome G

Cladosporium spp. (Williams et al. 2008; Pettit 2011)

40) calphostin A

41) calphostin B

42) calphostin C

43) calphostin D

44) calphostin I

Cladosporium cladosporioides

Phaeosphaeria sp.

(Iida et al. 2012)

(Li et al. 2012)

45) elsinochrome A

46) elsinochrome B

47) elsinochrome C

48) elsinochrome D

Elsinoë annonae

Stagonospora convolvuli

Parastagonospora nodorum

Pyrenochaeta terrestris

Shiraia sp.

Phaeosphaeria sp.

Pathogen (Weiss et al. 1987; Meille et al. 1989; Kurobane et al. 2006; Li et al. 2012; Chooi et al. 2017; Al Subeh et al. 2020)

49) hypocrellin

50) hypocrellin A

51) hypocrellin B

52) hypocrellin D

Hypocrella bambusae

Rubroshiraia bambusae

Shiraia sp.

Pathogen (Wu et al. 1989; Ma et al. 2004; Dai et al. 2019; Al Subeh et al. 2020; Li et al. 2021)

53) hypomycin A

54) hypomycin B

55) hypomycin C

56) hypomycin E

57) hypomycin F

58) hypomycin D

Hypomyces sp.

Shiraia sp.

(Liu et al. 2001b, a; Shen et al. 2003; Al Subeh et al. 2020)

59) phaeosphaerin A

60) phaeosphaerin B

61) phaeosphaerin C

62) phaeosphaerin D

63) phaeosphaerin E

64) phaeosphaerin F

Phaeosphaeria sp. Endolichenic fungus from Heterodermia obscurata (Li et al. 2012)

65) shiraiachrome A

66) ent-shiraiachrome A

Shiraia bambusicola Pathogenic fungus of bamboos (Mulrooey et al. 2012)