Hello, I am currently working on the antioxidant capacity determination of mushroom extracts, and one type of compound that exerts an important effect in this regard is precisely flavonoids. I was planning to determine such types of compounds in my extracts, but I found an article (Gil-Ramirez A. et al., 2016 - Mushrooms do not contain flavonoids) that clearly explains the absence of these compounds in mushrooms. Nevertheless, the amount of information estimating and even quantifying flavonoids in mushrooms and their extracts is enormous. It makes me wonder if mushrooms are actually capable of producing flavonoids and if it is worth trying their quantification from these organisms. All advice or comments will be valuable. Thanks!
The also contains antioxidant flavonoid acids, to fight against free radicals.
Dear, Sergio,
As I know, mushrooms have no flavonoids. So, they not have no ability to produce these compounds.
Sergio M. Espinoza
Have a look at this useful RG link.
Article Culinary-medicinal mushrooms: a review of organic compounds ...
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Sergio M. Espinoza
Also, see the RG link below.
Article Mushrooms Do Produce Flavonoids: Metabolite Profiling and Tr...
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Mushroom is a fruiting body of fungi and hence it contains all the genomic architecture of its genome. The genomic architecture of the fruiting body is not separated from its mycelia. A manuscript by Alicia Gil-Ramirez entitled “Mushroom don't contain flavonoids” published by “Journal of Functional Foods” vol. 25, August 2016, page 1–13 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jff.2016.05.005) has exclusively mentioned in the abstract section that “no sequences encoding chalcone synthase or chalcone isomerase (key enzyme involved in the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway) were found in the genomic databases even in completely sequenced mushrooms indicating that they do not have the enzyme needed for their production”.
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