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Iron Or Zinc Bioaccumulated In Mycelial Biomass Of Edible Basidiomycetes

Abstract

Iron and zinc bioaccumulation in mycelial biomass of different medicinal basidiomycetes was evaluated in order to produce metal-enriched mycelial biomass as an alternative functional food from non-animal sources and based on biotechnology processes. Pleurotus ostreatus strain U2-9, U2-11, U6-8, and U6-9, Pleurotus eryngii strain U8-11, Schizophyllum commune strain U6-7, and Lentinula edodes strain U6-11 and U6-12 were grown in malt extract agar with or without addition of 50 mg/L iron or 7.5 mg/L zinc. The mycelial biomass was separated and iron and zinc concentrations were determined in a flame atomic absorption spectrophotometer. Basidiomycete strains presented different growth rates with the presence of iron and zinc; there was no dependence between the metal bioaccumulation and the fungal growth. The fungi presented greater capacity to bioaccumulate iron than zinc. P. ostreatus (U2-9) has greater iron bioaccumulation (3197.7 mg/kg) while P. ostreatus (U6-8) greater zinc bioaccumulation (440.4 mg/kg) in mycelial biomass. P. ostreatus (U2-9), P. ostreatus (U2-11), and S. commune (U6-7) had the highest metal translocation rates from the culture medium to mycelial biomass. The mycelial biomass enriched with iron or zinc is an alternative to a new functional food from non-animal sources.

Key words
Basidiomycota; bioaccumulation; edible mushroom; mycelial biomass

INTRODUCTION

Basidiomycetes with biologically active compounds have been used as food and/or as dietary supplement (Wasser 2002WASSER SP. 2002. Medicinal mushrooms as a source of antitumor and immunomodulating polysaccharides. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 60(3): 258-274., 2017WASSER SP. 2017. Medicinal mushrooms in human clinical studies. Part I. Anticancer, oncoimmunological, and immunomodulatory activities: a review. Int J Med Mushrooms 19, 4: 279-317.). In 2010 Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq.) P. Kumm. was the most produced basidiocarp in China (5 million t) followed by Lentinula edodes (Berk.) Pegler (3.5 million tons) (Yu 2012YU L. 2012. Present development situation and tendency of edible mushroom industry in China. Mushroom Sci 18(1): 3-9.). P. ostreatus has anti-hypercholesterolemic (Bobek et al. 1991BOBEK P, GINTER E, KUNIAK L, BABALA J, JURCOVICOVA M, OZDÍN L & CERVEN J. 1991. Effect of mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus and isolated fungal polysaccharide on serum and liver lipids in Syrian hamsters with hyperlipoproteinemia. Nutrition 7(2): 105-108.) and antidiabetic (Rathore et al. 2017RATHORE H, PRASAD S & SHARMA S. 2017. Mushroom nutraceuticals for improved nutrition and better human health: a review. PharmaNutrition 5(2): 35-46.) activities, and antitumor or immunostimulating polysaccharides (Wasser 2002WASSER SP. 2002. Medicinal mushrooms as a source of antitumor and immunomodulating polysaccharides. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 60(3): 258-274.). L. edodes has antibacterial (Ishikawa et al. 2001ISHIKAWA NK, KASUYA MCM & VANETTI MCD. 2001. Antibacterial activity of Lentinula edodes grown in liquid medium. Braz J Microbiol 32(3): 206-210.), immune-modulating (Dai et al. 2015DAI X, STANILKA JM, ROWE CA, ESTEVES EA, NIEVES JRC, SPAISER SJ, CHRISTMAN MC, LANGKAMP-HENKEN B & PERCIVAL SS. 2015. Consuming Lentinula edodes (shiitake) mushrooms daily improves human immunity: a randomized dietary intervention in healthy young adults. J Am Coll Nutr 34(6): 478-487.), and antitumor - lentinan - (Rasmy et al. 2010RASMY GE, BOTROS WA, KABEIL SS & DABA AS. 2010. Preparation of glucan from Lentinula edodes edible mushroom and elucidation of its medicinal value. Aust J Basic Appl Sci 4(11): 5717-5726., Gao et al. 2018GAO Y, PADHIAR AA, WANG J, ZHANG W, ZHONG M, LIU B, KANG Z, WANG X, LI X & HUANG M. 2018. Recombinant latcripin 11 of Lentinula edodes C91-3 suppresses the proliferation of various cancer cells. Gene 642: 212-219.) activities. Pleurotus eryngii (DC.) Quél. has antioxidant, anti-hypertensive, and hipocholestorolemic (Abidin et al. 2017ABIDIN MHZ, ABDULLAH N & ABIDIN NZ. 2017. Therapeutic properties of Pleurotus species (oyster mushrooms) for atherosclerosis: a review. Int J Food Prop 20(6): 1251-1261.) activities and Japan has improved its production from 6700 t in 2000 to over 37000 t in 2009 (Royse & Sánchez 2017ROYSE DJ & SÁNCHEZ JE. 2017. Producción mundial de setas Pleurotus spp. con énfasis en países iberoamericanos. In: Sánchez JE & Royse DJ (Eds), La biología, el cultivo y las propiedades nutricionales y medicinales de las setas Pleurotus spp. Tapachula: el Colegio de la Frontera Sur. p. 17-25.). Schizophyllum commune Fr. produces hydrolytic enzymes with biotechnological potential (Tovar-Herrera et al. 2018TOVAR-HERRERA OE, MARTHA-PAZ AM, PÉREZ-LLANO Y, ARANDA E, TACORONTE-MORALES JE, PEDROSO-CABRERA MT, ARÉVALO-NIÑO K, FOLCH-MALLOL JL & BATISTA-GARCÍA RA. 2018. Schizophyllum commune: an unexploited source for lignocellulose degrading enzymes. MicrobiologyOpen 7(3): e00637.), antioxidant and immunomodulatory activities and is used as an adjuvant tumor therapy with the antitumor polysaccharide schizophyllan (Lindequist et al. 2005LINDEQUIST U, NIEDERMEYER THJ & JÜLICH WD. 2005. The pharmacological potential of mushrooms. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2(3): 285-299., Sullivan et al. 2006SULLIVAN R, SMITH JE & ROWAN NJ. 2006. Medicinal mushrooms and cancer therapy: translating a traditional practice into Western medicine. Perspect Biol Med 49(2): 159-170., Asatiani et al. 2010ASATIANI MD, ELISASHVILI V, SONGULASHVILI G, REZNICK AZ & WASSER SP. 2010. Higher basidiomycetes mushrooms as a source of antioxidants. In: Rai M & Kövics G (Eds), Progress in mycology. Dordrecht: Springer, p. 311-326., Wasser 2010WASSER SP. 2010. Medicinal mushroom science: history, current status, future trends, and unsolved problems. Int J Med Mushrooms 12(1): 1-16.).

The production of mycelial biomass is considered safer than basidiocarps because basidiocarps could accumulate pesticides and heavy metals from agroindustrial substrates (Vieira et al. 2013VIEIRA PAF, GONTIJO DC, VIEIRA BC, FONTES EAF, ASSUNÇÃO LS, LEITE JPV, OLIVEIRA MGA & KASUYA MCM. 2013. Antioxidant activities, total phenolics and metal contents in Pleurotus ostreatus mushrooms enriched with iron, zinc or lithium. LWT 54: 2: 421-425., Yokota et al. 2016YOKOTA ME, FRISON PS, MARCANTE RC, JORGE LF, VALLE JS, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2016. Iron translocation in Pleurotus ostreatus basidiocarps: production, bioavailability, and antioxidant activity. Genet Mol Res 15(1): gmr.15017888.). The bioaccumulation of nutritional metals in the mycelial biomass from edible and medicinal basidiomycetes is an alternative of non-animal mineral source associated with functional and medicinal activities of the basidiomycetes. In addition, ion bioaccumulation is higher in mycelial biomass (Almeida et al. 2015ALMEIDA SM, UMEO SH, MARCANTE RC, YOKOTA ME, VALLE JS, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2015. Iron bioaccumulation in mycelium of Pleurotus ostreatus. Braz J Microbiol 46(1): 195-200.) than basidiocarps (Yokota et al. 2016YOKOTA ME, FRISON PS, MARCANTE RC, JORGE LF, VALLE JS, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2016. Iron translocation in Pleurotus ostreatus basidiocarps: production, bioavailability, and antioxidant activity. Genet Mol Res 15(1): gmr.15017888.). Also, mycelial biomass cultivation could easily produce bioactive compounds in a shorter and controlled period than mushroom cultivation (Almeida et al. 2015ALMEIDA SM, UMEO SH, MARCANTE RC, YOKOTA ME, VALLE JS, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2015. Iron bioaccumulation in mycelium of Pleurotus ostreatus. Braz J Microbiol 46(1): 195-200.). Thus, mycelial biomass is an alternative for bioaccumulation of nutritional and pharmaceutical metals such as zinc (Marcante et al. 2014MARCANTE CR, MENIQUETTI A, PASCOTT CR, GAZIM ZC, MAGALHÃES HM, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2014. Zinc bioaccumulation in Agaricus subrufescens mycelium. Arq Ciênc Vet Zool UNIPAR 17(4): 249-252.), lithium (Faria et al. 2018FARIA MG, VALLE JS, LOPES AD, GONÇALVES JR AC, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2018. Bioaccumulation of lithium (Li2CO3) in mycelia of the culinary-medicinal oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus (Agaricomycetes) Int J Med Mushrooms 20(9): 901-907., 2019FARIA MGI, AVELINO KV, VALLE JS, SILVA GJ, GONÇALVES JR AC, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2019. Lithium bioaccumulation in Lentinus crinitus mycelial biomass as a potential functional food. Chemosphere 235: 538-542.), and iron (Almeida et al. 2015ALMEIDA SM, UMEO SH, MARCANTE RC, YOKOTA ME, VALLE JS, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2015. Iron bioaccumulation in mycelium of Pleurotus ostreatus. Braz J Microbiol 46(1): 195-200.).

For basidiomycetes, the increase of metal concentration in the culture medium increases bioaccumulation capacity (Umeo et al. 2019UMEO SH, FARIA MGI, VILANDE SS, DRAGUNSKI D C, VALLE JS, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2019. Iron and zinc mycelial bioaccumulation in Agaricus subrufescens strains. Semin Agrar 40: 2513-2522.). In addition, some metals can affect some compound yield such as copper that induces laccase activity (Bellettini et al. 2019BELLETTINI MB, FIORDA FA, MAIEVES HA, TEIXEIRA GL, ÁVILA S, HORNUNG PS, MACCARI JUNIOR A & RIBANI RH. 2019. Factors affecting mushroom Pleurotus spp. Saudi J Biol Sci 26: 633-646., Valle et al. 2015VALLE JS, VANDENBERGHE LPS, OLIVEIRA ACC, TAVARES MF, LINDE GA, COLAUTO NB & SOCCOL CR. 2015. Effect of different compounds on the induction of laccase production by Agaricus blazei. Genet Mol Res 14: 15882-15891.), lithium that reduces mycelial biomass production (Faria et al. 2018FARIA MG, VALLE JS, LOPES AD, GONÇALVES JR AC, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2018. Bioaccumulation of lithium (Li2CO3) in mycelia of the culinary-medicinal oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus (Agaricomycetes) Int J Med Mushrooms 20(9): 901-907., 2019), and iron that reduces mushroom production and antioxidant activity (Yokota et al. 2016YOKOTA ME, FRISON PS, MARCANTE RC, JORGE LF, VALLE JS, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2016. Iron translocation in Pleurotus ostreatus basidiocarps: production, bioavailability, and antioxidant activity. Genet Mol Res 15(1): gmr.15017888.). Thus, because addition of metals in culture medium could affect fungal metabolismo, case-by-case studies are necessary for the production of fungal biomass and the ion bioaccumulation with the basidiomycete of nutritional and pharmaceutical interest.

Iron and zinc are essential metals for animal and human health and are important for their participation in the metabolic processes (Dunn et al. 2007DUNN LL, RAHMANTO YS & RICHARDSON DR. 2007. Iron uptake and metabolism in the new millennium. Trends Biochem Sci 17(2): 93-100.). The need for iron intake doubles at six years of age from 0.9 mg/day to 1.8 mg/day, increasing even more during puberty (WHO/FAO 2004WHO/FAO - WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS. 2004. Vitamin and mineral requirements in human nutrition. 2nd ed., Bangkok: World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 341 p. https://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/micronutrients/9241546123/en/.
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). Usually, iron deficiency is followed by the lack of other micronutrients such as zinc (Allen et al. 2006ALLEN L, BENOIST B, DARY O & HURRELL R. 2006. Guidelines on food fortification with micronutrients. Hong Kong: World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 341 p. https://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/micronutrients/9241594012/en/.
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). Therefore, in order to provide alternative food and/or supplement bioaccumulated with metals it is necessary to search for edible and medicinal basidiomycetes with this capability.

Our study aimed to evaluate the iron or zinc bioaccumulation in mycelial biomass of different basidiomycete species and strains cultivated in liquid malt extract medium added of iron or zinc. The mycelial biomass enriched with minerals could be added to breadsticks (Proserpio et al. 2019PROSERPIO C, LAVELLI V, GALLOTTI F, LAUREATI M & PAGLIARINI E. 2019. Effect of vitamin D fortification using Pleurotus ostreatus in a whole-grain cereal product on child acceptability. Nutrients 11: 2441-2449.) and/or cookies in order to obtain functional foods with high nutritional values (Cornelia & Chandra 2019CORNELIA M & CHANDRA J. 2019. Utilization of white oyster mushroom powder (Pleurotus ostreatus (Jacq.) P. Kumm.) in the making of biscuit as emergency food product. Eurasia J Biosci 13: 1859-1866.).

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Biological material

Eight basidiomycete strains of Lentinula edodes (U6-11, U6-12), Pleurotus eryngii (U8-11), Pleurotus ostreatus [U2-9 (also INCQS 40358), U2-11, U6-8, and U6-9], and Schizophyllum commune (U6-7) from the Culture Collection of the Molecular Biology Laboratory of Paranaense University were utilized. Cryopreserved mycelia were recovered in 20 g/L malt extract agar (MEA) medium (autoclaved at 121 °C for 20 min) in the dark at 25 ± 1 °C (Mantovani et al. 2012MANTOVANI TRD, TANAKA HS, UMEO SH, ZAGHI JR LL, VALLE JS, PACCOLA-MEIRELLES LD, LINDE GA & COLAUTO NB. 2012. Cryopreservation at -20 and -70 oC of Pleurotus ostreatus on grains. Indian J Microbiol 52(3): 484-488., Linde et al. 2018LINDE GA, LUCIANI A, LOPES AD, VALLE JS & COLAUTO NB. 2018. Long-term cryopreservation of basidiomycetes. Braz J Microbiol 49(2): 220-231.). Mycelia showing homogenous growth without sectoring were selected as inoculum.

Determination of mycelial biomass

The solid cultivation medium consisted of MEA added with 50.0 mg/L iron from a FeSO4 solution (Almeida et al. 2015ALMEIDA SM, UMEO SH, MARCANTE RC, YOKOTA ME, VALLE JS, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2015. Iron bioaccumulation in mycelium of Pleurotus ostreatus. Braz J Microbiol 46(1): 195-200.) or 7.5 mg/L zinc from a ZnSO4 solution (Marcante et al. 2014MARCANTE CR, MENIQUETTI A, PASCOTT CR, GAZIM ZC, MAGALHÃES HM, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2014. Zinc bioaccumulation in Agaricus subrufescens mycelium. Arq Ciênc Vet Zool UNIPAR 17(4): 249-252.). MEA without ion addition was used as control. MEA was autoclaved (121 ˚C for 20 min) and FeSO4 or ZnSO4 solutions were previously filtered (0.22 µm diameter pore) and homogenized in autoclaved MEA just before poured into Petri dishes (90 mm). One MEA disk (5 mm diameter) containing mycelia was placed in the middle of the cultivation medium as inoculum and kept for 28 days at 28 ± 1 °C in the dark.

Colonized cultivation medium was heated up in a microwave oven for 30 s to easily remove the mycelial biomass from the surface of the cultivation medium. The mycelial biomass was transferred to a 500 mL becker containing 200 mL ultrapurified water at 80 °C, and the mixture stirred vigorously for 5 min to remove any residual cultivation medium. Next, the mycelial biomass was separated by centrifugation at 2900 g for 15 min at 4 °C. This process was carried three times. The precipitate biomass was transferred to a 50 mL becker containing 20 mL nitric acid (10%) to remove metals adhered to the mycelial biomass surface. The mixture was stirred vigorously for 5 min, the mycelial biomass separated by centrifugation at 2900 g for 15 min at 4 °C and the precipitated dried at 60 °C until constant mass. Arithmetical mean was calculated from ten replicates to obtain the mycelial biomass (dry basis).

Determination of metals in the mycelial biomass

For ion extraction, 67% HNO3, 1:12 (mass:volume), was added to dehydrated mycelial biomass and kept at 22 °C ± 2 °C for 72 h. The mixture was heated at 100 °C and 30% H2O2, 1:6 (mass:volume), was added until complete solubilization. The mixture was filtered (14 µm porosity filter paper), washed and the volume adjusted to 10 mL with ultrapurified water (Yokota et al. 2016YOKOTA ME, FRISON PS, MARCANTE RC, JORGE LF, VALLE JS, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2016. Iron translocation in Pleurotus ostreatus basidiocarps: production, bioavailability, and antioxidant activity. Genet Mol Res 15(1): gmr.15017888.). The ion concentration of samples was determined by flame atomic absorption spectrophotometry (GBC model 932 plus). For ion quantification, a calibration curve (R2 = 0.998) was used with analytical standard certified and traceable (IAA-203 Lot K00461 ultra scientific analytical solutions) with 0.01 µg mL-1 ion detection limit. In addition, for each batch of analyzes, an internal standard was placed without the analytical ion and with the certified element standard. Arithmetical mean was calculated from ten replicates to obtain the metal bioaccumulation in mycelial biomass (dry basis).

Mycelial biomass grown difference between MEA with and without metal addition was calculated by subtracting mycelial biomass grown in MEA without metal addition of mycelial biomass grown in MEA with metal addition, dividing the result per mycelial biomass grown in MEA without metal addition and multiplying by 100 (dry basis).

Metal bioaccumulated in mycelial biomass was calculated by dividing metal bioaccumulated in mycelial biomass grown in MEA with metal addition per metal bioaccumulated in mycelial biomass grown in MEA without metal addition and multiplying by 100 (dry basis).

Translocated metal yield from the cultivation medium (Petri dish) to the mycelial biomass was determined by multiplying the mycelial biomass grown in MEA with metal addition per the metal bioaccumulated in mycelial biomass grown in MEA with metal addition and dividing by 1000 (dry basis).

Statistical analysis

The experimental design was completely randomized, arithmetical mean, and standard deviation were calculated, and the differences determined by Scott-Knott test (p ≤ 0.05) utilizing Sisvar software, version 5.6.

RESULTS

Iron addition to the cultivation medium reduced the mycelial biomass production in 68.7% (L. edodes U6-12) and 15.0% (P. ostreatus U6-8) (Table I). However, among P. ostreatus strains, the reduction of the mycelial biomass production ranged from 64.1% (P. ostreatus U2-9) to 15.0% (P. ostreatus U6-8) (Table I). Thus, when iron was present in the cultivation medium a great variation on the mycelial biomass production occurred within the species and strains. Iron bioaccumulation capacity in the mycelial biomass varied from 467.9 mg/kg (L. edodes U6-11) to 3197.7 mg/kg (P. ostreatus U2-9); when compared to the control, the addition of iron in the MEA increased the ion bioaccumulating at 6700% for L. edodes U6-11 and 36000% for P. ostreatus U2-9 (Table I). Among P. ostreatus strains the iron bioaccumulation presented variation of 20% and between L. edodes strains the variation was of 74%. Thus, the iron bioaccumulation was species and strain dependents.

Table I
Translocated iron per Petri dish yield, iron in mycelial biomass, and mycelial biomass (dry basis) grown in malt extract agar with and without addition of 50.0 mg/L iron.

Translocated iron yield ranged from 17.7 mg per Petri dish (L. edodes U6-11) to 152 mg per Petri dish (P. ostreatus U2-9, P. ostreatus U2-11) (Table I). P. ostreatus (U2-9 and U2-11) presented the greatest (p ≤ 0.05) iron translocation yield among the strains, followed by P. ostreatus (U6-8 and U6-9) (p ≤ 0.05) and then by P. eryngii (U8-11) and S. commune (U6-7) (p ≤ 0.05), and finally by L. edodes (U6-11, U6-12) (p ≤ 0.05) (Table I). In this case, the strain with the greatest yield was also the one that had the greatest iron bioaccumulation capacity (P. ostreatusU2-9) among the strains (Table I).

The addition of zinc to the cultivation medium altered the mycelial biomass production from -64.2% (L. edodes U6-12) to +7.2% (P. ostreatus U6-8) (Table II). S. commune (U6-7) practically did not presented alteration in the mycelial biomass production compared to zinc addition (Table II). P. ostreatus (U6-8) increased the mycelial biomass with zinc addition however, another P. ostreatus strain (U2-9) presented reduction of 44.8% on the mycelial biomass growth (Table II). Thus, it was evident that zinc addition in the culture medium affected the mycelial growth depending on species and strains.

Table II
Translocated zinc per Petri dish yield, zinc bioaccumulated in mycelial biomass, and mycelial biomass (dry basis) grown in malt extract agar with and without addition of 7.5 mg/L zinc.

The zinc bioaccumulation in the mycelial biomass varied from 180.4 mg/kg (L. edodes U6-12) to 440.4 mg/kg (P. ostreatus U6-8) which represents approximately an increase of 450% and 1200% compared to each control, respectively (Table II). Translocated zinc bioaccumulation yield ranged from 5.5 mg per Petri dish (L. edodes U6-12) to 42.2 mg per Petri dish (S. commune U6-7) (Table II). S. commune (U6-7) presented the greatest zinc translocation yield (p ≤ 0.05) among the strains, followed by P. ostreatus (U2-9, U2-11, U6-8, U6-9) and P. eryngii (U8-11) (p ≤ 0.05), and finally by L. edodes (U6-11, U6-12) (p ≤ 0.05) (Table II). Although S. commune (U6-7) had the greatest yield, P. ostreatus (U6-8) was the strain with greatest zinc bioaccumulation making evident that not always the strain that presents the greatest zinc bioaccumulation is the one that can offer the greatest yield of bioaccumulated ions. It suggests that is necessary to consider the capacity to produce mycelial biomass under the ion presence.

Overall, the addition of iron or zinc in the cultivation medium reduced mycelial biomass production (Tables I and II). The strain response to the presence of iron or zinc in the cultivation medium was depending of specie and strain. P. ostreatus (U2-9) and P. ostreatus (U2-11) were the strains with greater capacity to translocate iron from the cultivation medium to the mycelial biomass. The first one was able to bioaccumulate a greater amount of iron despite the smallest mycelial biomass production; the second one had greater mycelial biomass production despite smaller bioaccumulation of iron (Table I). It is fundamental that the fungus can grow and produce mycelial biomass in the cultivation medium with high metal concentration, which results in ideal conditions for the high yield of metal bioaccumulation.

DISCUSSION

The strains of wood-decay fungi had distinct capacity to bioaccumulate iron or zinc. Our results demonstrated that P. ostreatus strains have greater capacity to bioaccumulate iron while S. commune bioaccumulates zinc more effectively. P. ostreatus has been utilized to produce mycelial biomass bioaccumulated with metals such as iron (Almeida et al. 2015ALMEIDA SM, UMEO SH, MARCANTE RC, YOKOTA ME, VALLE JS, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2015. Iron bioaccumulation in mycelium of Pleurotus ostreatus. Braz J Microbiol 46(1): 195-200., Yokota et al. 2016YOKOTA ME, FRISON PS, MARCANTE RC, JORGE LF, VALLE JS, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2016. Iron translocation in Pleurotus ostreatus basidiocarps: production, bioavailability, and antioxidant activity. Genet Mol Res 15(1): gmr.15017888.) and lithium (Faria et al. 2018FARIA MG, VALLE JS, LOPES AD, GONÇALVES JR AC, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2018. Bioaccumulation of lithium (Li2CO3) in mycelia of the culinary-medicinal oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus (Agaricomycetes) Int J Med Mushrooms 20(9): 901-907.). Basidomycetes present physiological responses to the environment, generally strain-specific ones. Umeo et al. (2015)UMEO SH, SOUZA GPN, RAPACHI P, GARCIA DM, PACCOLA-MEIRELLES L, VALLE JS, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2015. Screening of basidiomycetes in submerged cultivation based on antioxidant activity. Genet Mol Res 14(3): 9907-9914. observed a high variability for the production of mycelial biomass, exopolysaccharides, and antioxidants among different species and even among strains of the same species, making it essential to evaluate the species and strains separately in order to identify fungi with biotechnological potential. This results are in accordance to our study where different strains of P. ostreatus showed different (p ≤ 0.05) mycelial biomass production and iron or zinc bioaccumulation capacity.

Besides the capacity to bioaccumulate zinc, S. commune is also able to produce several enzymes (Asgher et al. 2016ASGHER M, WAHAB A, BILAL M & IQBAL H M N. 2016. Lignocellulose degradation and production of lignin modifying enzymes by Schizophyllum commune IBL-06 in solid-state fermentation. Biocatal Agric Biotechnol 6: 195-201.) which can explain its high strength to produce mycelial biomass even at high iron or zinc concentrations as shown in our study. Moreover, this fungus is a producer of the polysaccharide schizophyllan with antitumor and immune modulating activity (Smith et al. 2003SMITH JE, SULLIVAN R & ROWAN NJ. 2003. The role of polysaccharides derived from medicinal mushrooms in cancer treatment programs: current perspectives (review). Int J Med Mushrooms 5(3): 1-18.), increasing the nutritional and functional importance of it when associated with metals bioaccumulated in the mycelial biomass.

Our study showed that the concentration of iron bioaccumulated in the mycelial biomass was higher than the one of zinc for all strains. Ebenso et al. (2013)EBENSO IE, SOLOMON IP, AKOJE CC, AKPAN IP, EKO PM, AKPAN EA & OMOLE AJ. 2013. Bioaccumulation of iron, zinc, cadmium and chromium by juvenile snail Limicolaria aurora J., fed edible mushroom Pleurotus spp from Niger delta, Nigeria. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 90(3): 314-317. verified that the metal concentration in commercially produced mushrooms of P. ostreatus ranged from 118.40 to 89.30 mg/kg iron, and from 23.41 to 16.44 mg/kg zinc. This indicates that these basidiomycetes have natural capacity to translocate greater amounts of iron than zinc. Almeida et al. (2015)ALMEIDA SM, UMEO SH, MARCANTE RC, YOKOTA ME, VALLE JS, DRAGUNSKI DC, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2015. Iron bioaccumulation in mycelium of Pleurotus ostreatus. Braz J Microbiol 46(1): 195-200. reported that P. ostreatus mycelial biomass grown in solid cultivation medium added of 250 mg/L iron, bioaccumulated up to 3616 mg/kg iron. This value is close to the one found in our study for P. ostreatus (U2-9) mycelial biomass of 3197.7 mg/kg iron.

Marcante et al. (2014)MARCANTE CR, MENIQUETTI A, PASCOTT CR, GAZIM ZC, MAGALHÃES HM, COLAUTO NB & LINDE GA. 2014. Zinc bioaccumulation in Agaricus subrufescens mycelium. Arq Ciênc Vet Zool UNIPAR 17(4): 249-252. reported zinc bioaccumulation in Agaricus subrufescens Peck (U2-1) - also Agaricus blazei Murrill ss. Heinemann and Agaricus brasiliensis Wasser et al. - mycelial biomass in solid cultivation medium with addition of 7.5 mg/L zinc of 414 mg/kg. In our study, a similar result to zinc bioaccumulation of 440.4 mg/kg was obtained for P. ostreatus (U6-8) mycelial biomass grown in a cultivation medium added with 7.5 mg/L zinc. Matute et al. (2011)MATUTE RG, SERRA A, FIGLAS D & CURVETTO N. 2011. Copper and zinc bioaccumulation and bioavailability of Ganoderma lucidum. J Med Food 14(10): 1273-1279. reported that Ganoderma lucidum mycelial biomass also accumulated zinc in a dose-dependent manner and that zinc concentration was strongly inhibitory for mycelial biomass growth.

The greatest basidiomycete capacity to bioaccumulate iron compared to zinc can be related to the high iron demand in metabolic processes. Although iron is essential to fungal metabolism, at high concentrations it can release free radicals that cause enzymatic inhibition, displacement or substitution of ions, and membrane rupture that affect the fungal metabolism and reproduction (Gadd 2007GADD GM. 2007. Geomycology: biogeochemical transformations of rocks, minerals, metals and radionuclides by fungi, bioweathering and bioremediation. Mycol Res 111(1): 3-49.). Moreover, an energetic orientation of the metabolism can occur to produce protective compounds to iron and, therefore, reduce the energy utilized for fungal growth (Haas 2003HAAS H. 2003. Molecular genetics of fungal siderophore biosynthesis and uptake: the role of siderophores in iron uptake and storage Appl Microbiol Biotechnolv 62(4): 316-330.), which would explain the mycelial biomass growth reduction in the cultivation medium with addition of iron or zinc.

Despite abundant in nature, iron is normally found as an insoluble salt (Philpott 2006PHILPOTT CC. 2006. Iron uptake in fungi: a system for every source. Biochim Biophys Acta 1763(7): 636-645.). Fungus developed several strategies to capture iron such as acidification of medium, reduction of ferric iron to ferrous form, and secretion of iron chelating molecules as hydroxamates (Haas 2003HAAS H. 2003. Molecular genetics of fungal siderophore biosynthesis and uptake: the role of siderophores in iron uptake and storage Appl Microbiol Biotechnolv 62(4): 316-330.). Siderophores such as rhodotorulic acid, fusarinines, coprogens, and ferrichromes are high-affinity iron-chelating compounds secreted by fungi to transport iron across cell membranes and could catalyze oxygen reactive species that are harmful to cells (Haas 2003HAAS H. 2003. Molecular genetics of fungal siderophore biosynthesis and uptake: the role of siderophores in iron uptake and storage Appl Microbiol Biotechnolv 62(4): 316-330.). Manoproteins contribute to the retention of siderophore-iron chelates in the cell wall and increase iron uptake by fungi. In addition, ferric iron-binding proteins are also capable of capturing iron (Philpott 2006PHILPOTT CC. 2006. Iron uptake in fungi: a system for every source. Biochim Biophys Acta 1763(7): 636-645.). Thus, basidiomycetes have different molecules that bind with metals in order to bioaccumulate high concentrations of metals.

Considering that fungi are more efficient to concentrate metals or minerals than plants (Dursun et al. 2006DURSUN N, ÖZCAN MM, KAŞIK G & ÖZTÜRK C. 2006. Mineral contents of 34 species of edible mushrooms growing wild in Turkey. J Sci Food Agric 86(7): 1087-1094.), that iron and zinc are essential metals in animal and human health (WHO/FAO 2004WHO/FAO - WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS. 2004. Vitamin and mineral requirements in human nutrition. 2nd ed., Bangkok: World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 341 p. https://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/micronutrients/9241546123/en/.
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, Allen et al. 2006ALLEN L, BENOIST B, DARY O & HURRELL R. 2006. Guidelines on food fortification with micronutrients. Hong Kong: World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 341 p. https://www.who.int/nutrition/publications/micronutrients/9241594012/en/.
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, Dunn et al. 2007DUNN LL, RAHMANTO YS & RICHARDSON DR. 2007. Iron uptake and metabolism in the new millennium. Trends Biochem Sci 17(2): 93-100.), and that the main food sources consumed by the population have low iron (Blanco-Rojo & Vaquero, 2019BLANCO-ROJO R & VAQUERO MP. 2019. Iron bioavailability from food fortification to precision nutrition. A review. Innov Food Sci Emerg Technol 51: 126-138.) and zinc (Peres & Koury, 2006PERES PM & KOURY JC. 2006. Zinc, immunity, nutrition and exercise. Ceres 1(1): 9-18.) concentration, the mycelial biomass bioaccumulated with these metals could be an alternative functional food with benefits against metal nutritional deficiencies. Comparing our results to beans, which are daily consumed in Brazil, 1 g iron or zinc bioaccumulated mycelial biomass has 32-fold more iron and 22-fold more zinc than 1 g bean (Tan et al. 2008TAN SY, YEUNG CK, TAKO E, GLAHN RP, WELCH RM, LEI X & MILLER DD. 2008. Iron bioavailability to piglets from red and white common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris). J Agric Food Chem 56(13): 5008-5014.).

CONCLUSIONS

Strains and species of basidiomycetes have distinct responses to the presence of iron or zinc in the cultivation medium and there is no dependence between the metal bioaccumulation capacity and mycelial biomass production. In general, there is a greater capacity to bioaccumulate iron than zinc. P. ostreatus (U2-9) has greater iron bioaccumulation (3197.7 mg/kg) while P. ostreatus (U6-8) presents greater zinc bioaccumulation (440.4 mg/kg) in mycelial biomass. Also, P. ostreatus (U2-9) and P. ostreatus (U2-11) have the highest yield to translocate iron (152 mg per Petri dish) from the cultivation medium to the mycelial biomass and S. commune (U6-7) has the highest yield to translocate zinc (42 mg per Petri dish) from the cultivation medium to the mycelial biomass. The mycelial biomass enrichment with iron or zinc is an alternative for the development of new functional food and/or food supplement from a non-animal source.

ACKNOWLEGMENTS

The authors thank Universidade Paranaense, Graduate Program in Biotechnology Applied to Agriculture (Probiot), Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brazil (CAPES) -finance code 001-, and Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) for the financial support and fellowship

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    17 Aug 2020
  • Date of issue
    2020

History

  • Received
    01 Nov 2019
  • Accepted
    06 Mar 2020
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