A review on bioluminescent fungus Neonothopanus gardneri

• Autor(a) principal: Vieira , Maycon Bruno Barbosa
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Iago Cavalcante, Oliveira, Maria das Dores Alves de, Costa Júnior, Joaquim Soares da, Andrade, Teresinha de Jesus Aguiar dos Santos, Feitosa, Chistiane Mendes, Rai, Mahendra, Lima, Nerilson Marques, Silva, Danielle da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/28009
• topic: Fungo de bioluminescência; Neonothopanus gardneri; Flor de coco; Agaricales.; Hongo de la bioluminiscencia; Neonothopanus gardneri; Flor de coco; Agaricales.; Bioluminescence fungus; Neonothopanus gardneri; Flor de coco; Agaricales.

Neonothopanus gardneri (N. gardneri) is a species of bioluminescent fungus belonging to the order Agaricales (Marasmiaceae) found in South America.  Its existence was first reported in 1840 by George Gardner in his travels to Brazil, where it is popularly called "coco flower".  Found mainly in decaying leaves and in the trunk of dwarf palm trees called "pindoba" (Attalea oleifera) or babaçu (Orbignya phalerata), recently N. gardneri had some of its bioactives isolated and their respective structures elucidated. Thus, this paper aims to present and discuss the findings of the works produced involving this theme. Thus, for the development of this literature review, books and scientific articles were searched in the following databases: Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, web of science, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing and Google Scholar (1990-2021). The following keywords were used to filter the productions: "Neonothopanus", "Neonothopanus gardneri", "Bioactivities", "Bioprospecting", "Secondary metabolite", "Endophytic" and "bioluminescence". Finally, it is possible to observe that studies involving this species of bioluminescent fungus have focused on explaining the mechanism of light production and its potential biological activities, among them, antitumor, antioxidant, antimicrobial and antileishmanial effects.