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The analysis of the absorption spectra of the low-molecular-weight nitrogen-containing secondary metabolites—alkaloids—of four Penicillium chrysogenum strains and six P. expansum strains isolated on board the Mir space station showed that all these strains synthesize metabolites of alkaloid origin (roquefortine, 3,12-dihydroroquefortine, meleagrin, viridicatin, viridicatol, isorugulosuvin, rugulosuvin B, N acetyltryptamine, and a “yellow metabolite” containing the benzoquinone chromophore).
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Kozlovskii, A.G., Zhelifonova, V.P., Adanin, V.M. et al. The Biosynthesis of Low-Molecular-Weight Nitrogen-Containing Secondary Metabolites—Alkaloids—by the Resident Strains of Penicillium chrysogenum and Penicillium expansum Isolated on Board the Mir Space Station. Microbiology 71, 666–669 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021475722091
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