Are any mushrooms known to contain hydroxylamines?

[Bruce A. Caldwell]

Hydroxamate-based siderophores (specific iron chelators) are widely produced
by fungi, including mycorrhiza-formers and wood-rotters.  Bacteria generally
produce catechol-based siderophores, although there are a few exceptions.

Bruce Caldwell
Forest Science
Oregon State University
Corvalls OR  97331-5752

bruce.caldwell at orst.edu.



John Chalmers wrote:

> I'd like to know too. Hydroxylamine and its simple alkyl derivatives are
> laboratory mutagens-- I've used it and methoxylamine in the past to
> mutate Neurospora conidia back in the Pleistocene when I was a fungal
> geneticist.  I believe they react with cytosine to form an adduct that
> mispairs with Adenine instead of the normal Guanine, but I'd have to
> look it up this AM.
>
> Salicylhydroxamic acid is respiratory inhibitor in Neurospora and other
> organism, probably, IIRC, by chelating iron in the respiratory chain.
> Some bacteria produce hydroxamic acid derivatives to scavenger iron and
> I see no reason why fungi might not also.
>
> --John