Diversity, biology, and history of psilocybin-containing fungi: suggestions for research and technological development

RC Van Court, MS Wiseman, KW Meyer, DJ Ballhorn… - Fungal Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Therapeutic use of psilocybin has become a focus of recent international research, with
preliminary data showing promise to address a range of treatment-resistant mental health …

Phylogenomics, divergence times and notes of orders in Basidiomycota

MQ He, B Cao, F Liu, T Boekhout, TT Denchev… - Fungal diversity, 2024 - Springer
Basidiomycota is one of the major phyla in the fungal tree of life. The outline of
Basidiomycota provides essential taxonomic information for researchers and workers in …

Phylogenomics of the psychoactive mushroom genus Psilocybe and evolution of the psilocybin biosynthetic gene cluster

AJ Bradshaw, V Ramírez-Cruz… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Psychoactive mushrooms in the genus Psilocybe have immense cultural value and have
been used for centuries in Mesoamerica. Despite the recent surge of interest in these …

Ecology drives the observed spectrum of hydrophobin protein diversity across Kingdom Fungi

B Lovett, MT Kasson, JA Gandier - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Hydrophobins mediate the interactions between fungi and the elements of their ecosystem
via assembly at interfaces serving a wide range of diverse functions. As such, these proteins …

Mycotools: an automated and scalable platform for comparative genomics

Z Konkel, JC Slot - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Comparative genomics comprises analyses that investigate the genetic basis of organismal
biology and ecology, which have also been applied to high throughput trait screening for …

Cystathionine Gamma-Lyase Regulate Psilocybin Biosynthesis in Gymnopilus dilepis Mushroom via Amino Acid Metabolism Pathways

S Yao, C Wei, H Lin, P Zhang, Y Liu, Y Deng, Q Huang… - Journal of Fungi, 2022 - mdpi.com
As a potential medicine for the treatment of depression, psilocybin has gradually attracted
attention. To elucidate the molecular mechanism regulating psilocybin synthesis in …