Trichoderma reesei

PTCC No.: 
5142
Other collection No.: 
CBS 383.78, ATCC 13631; CCM F-560; DSM 768; IMI 192654
Culture condition: 
24 °C
Information: 
<- CBS <-E.G. Simmons. Isolated from Cotton duck shelter, Bougainville Island. Used in Fungus resistance testing plastics. Produces glucose by enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose. Produces endoglucanase. Produces glucan 1,3-beta-glucosidase beta-D-1,3-glucanase, exo-1,3-beta-glucanase, exo-1,3-beta-glucosidase. Produces cell-wall lytic enzymes.
Literature: 

Taxonomy (Kuhls K, et al. Molecular evidence that the asexual industrial fungus Trichoderma reesei is a clonal derivative of the ascomycete Hypocrea jecorina. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93: 7755-7760, 1996. PubMed: 8755548. Martinez D, et al. Genome sequencing and analysis of the biomass-degrading fungus Trichoderma reesei (syn. Hypocrea jecorina). Nat. Biotechnol. 26: 553-560, 2008. Wang H, et al. A fungal phylogeny based on 82 complete genomes using the composition vector method. BMC Evol. Biol. 9: 195, 2009. PubMed: 19664262). Fungus resistance testing plastics (Plastics--Assessment of the effectiveness of fungistatic compounds in plastics formulations. Geneva (Switzerland):International Organization for Standardization/ANSI;ISO ISO 16869:2001).Cellulase production (Biotechnol Bioeng 1975, 17: 361-374; J. Ferment Technol 1972, 50: 914-916; J Bacteriol 1962, 83: 400-408). Production of D-glucose (Appl Microbiol 1968, 16: 419-420). Production of glucanase ( Acad Sci. Ser D Nat 1977, 283: 1397-1399). Method for purifying microbial polysaccharides (US Patent 4,094,739). Production of cell wall lytic enzymes (Curr Microbiol 1984,11: 113-118)

Supplied as: 
Freeze-dried
Risk group: 
1