andrastin
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[edit]Noun
[edit]andrastin (plural andrastins)
- Any of a family of fungal monoterpenoids, found in blue cheese, that inhibit farnesyltransferase
- 2015 December 31, “Penicillium excelsum sp . nov from the Brazil Nut Tree Ecosystem in the Amazon Basin’”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- The species produces andrastin A, curvulic acid, penicillic acid and xanthoepocin, and has unique partial β-tubulin and calmodulin gene sequences.