Highlights•Lifestyles and ecologies of Basidiomycota are reflected in distinct biocatalytic
activities.•Basidiomycota are masters of oxidative biocatalysis involving different types of …

The evolution of multicellularity has been one of the major transitions in the history of life. In
contrast to animals and plants, how multicellularity evolved in fungi and how it compares to …

In this article, we review some of the best-studied fungi used as food sources, in particular,
the cheese fungi, the truffles, and the fungi used for drink fermentation such as beer, wine …

Hydrophobins are small secreted proteins with important physiological functions and
potential applications. Here, Pleurotus ostreatus hydrophobin genes were systematically …

White button mushroom polysaccharide (WMP) has various health-promoting functions.
However, whether these functions are mediated by gut microbiota has not been well …

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) of the Flammulina elastica (wood-rotting basidiomycete)
genome was performed to identify carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes). The resulting …

Mushrooms are the most conspicuous fungal structures. Transcription factors (TFs) Bri1 and
Hom1 of the model fungus Schizophyllum commune are involved in late stages of …

The steadily increasing number of sequenced fungal and oomycete genomes has enabled
detailed studies of how these eukaryotic microbes infect plants and cause devastating …

Abstract Background Unspecific peroxygenases (UPO)(EC 1.11. 2.1) represent an intriguing
oxidoreductase sub-subclass of heme proteins with peroxygenase and peroxidase activity …

We present a multilocus phylogeny of the class Dacrymycetes, based on data from the 18S,
ITS, 28S, RPB1, RPB2, TEF-1α, 12S, and ATP6 DNA regions, with c. 90 species including …