FIGURE 1 | The main groups of fungal secondary metabolites.

From the following article:

Fungal secondary metabolism — from biochemistry to genomics

Nancy P. Keller, Geoffrey Turner & Joan W. Bennett

Nature Reviews Microbiology 3, 937-947 (December 2005)

doi:10.1038/nrmicro1286

Fungal secondary metabolism |[mdash]| from biochemistry to genomics

Ergopeptides such as ergotamine are tryptophan-derived alkaloids to which peptides are added by a non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS). T2 toxin is a trichothecene of Fusarium sporotrichioides. WA (a naphthopyrone), is a yellow pigment produced by the polyketide synthase WA, encoded by the wA gene of Aspergillus nidulans. It is converted to the green spore pigment by a laccase. Fusarin C synthesis is dependent on a hybrid PKS (polyketide synthase)–NRPS.

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