Diversity in Secondary Metabolites Including Mycotoxins from Strains of Aspergillus Section Nigri Isolated from Raw Cashew Nuts from Benin, West Africa

PLoS One

Manuele Tamo¹  Kerstin Hell²  Eddy J. Smid²  Kristian F. Nielsen²  Martinus J. R. Nout³  Anita R. Linnemann³  Yendouban Lamboni⁴  Martinus A. J. S. van Boekel⁴  Jens Christian Frisvad⁵  Yüksel Gezgin⁵  Jakob Blæsbjerg Hoof⁵ 

[1] Department of Bioengineering, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey;Department of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark;Food Quality and Design Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands;International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Cotonou, Benin;Laboratory of Food Microbiology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

关键词: Aspergillus;    Metabolites;    Secondary metabolites;    Polymerase chain reaction;    DNA sequence analysis;    Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry;    Phylogenetic analysis;    Sequence databases;   

DOI  :  10.1371/journal.pone.0164310

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Public Library of Science

【 摘 要 】

In a previous study, raw cashew kernels were assayed for the fungal contamination focusing on strains belonging to the genus Aspergillus and on aflatoxins producers. These samples showed high contamination with Aspergillus section Nigri species and absence of aflatoxins. To investigate the diversity of secondary metabolites, including mycotoxins, the species of A. section Nigri may produce and thus threaten to contaminate the raw cashew kernels, 150 strains were isolated from cashew samples and assayed for their production of secondary metabolites using liquid chromatography high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS). Seven species of black Aspergilli were isolated based on morphological and chemical identification: A. tubingensis (44%), A. niger (32%), A. brasiliensis (10%), A. carbonarius (8.7%), A. luchuensis (2.7%), A. aculeatus (2%) and A. aculeatinus (0.7%). From these, 45 metabolites and their isomers were identified. Aurasperone and pyranonigrin A, produced by all species excluding A. aculeatus and A. aculeatinus, were most prevalent and were encountered in 146 (97.3%) and 145 (95.7%) isolates, respectively. Three mycotoxins groups were detected: fumonisins (B2 and B4) (2.7%) ochratoxin A (13.3%), and secalonic acids (2%), indicating that these mycotoxins could occur in raw cashew nuts. Thirty strains of black Aspergilli were randomly sampled for verification of species identity based on sequences of β-tubulin and calmodulin genes. Among them, 27 isolates were positive to the primers used and 11 were identified as A. niger, 7 as A. tubingensis, 6 as A. carbonarius, 2 as A. luchuensis and 1 as A. welwitschiae confirming the species names as based on morphology and chemical features. These strains clustered in 5 clades in A. section Nigri. Chemical profile clustering also showed also 5 groups confirming the species specific metabolites production.

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