{"id":31143,"date":"2023-09-03T12:36:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31143"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:35:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:05:55","slug":"patulin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/patulin\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Patulin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Key finding:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The team identified a\u00a0<strong>filamentous fungal strain, Acremonium sp. or &#8220;TUS-MM1<\/strong>,&#8221; belonging to the genera Acremonium.<\/li>\n<li>The scientists then performed various experiments to shed light on the mechanisms by which\u00a0<strong>TUS-MM1 degraded patulin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This involved incubating the mold strain in a patulin-rich solution and focusing on the substances that gradually appeared both inside and outside its cells in response to patulin over time.<\/li>\n<li>They found that TUS-MM1 cells transformed any\u00a0<strong>absorbed patulin into desoxypatulinic acid<\/strong>, a compound\u00a0<strong>much less toxic than patulin<\/strong>, by adding hydrogen atoms to it.<\/li>\n<li>The team also found that some of the compounds secreted by TUS-MM1 cells can transform patulin into other molecules.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>About Patulin:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Patulin (C7H6O4) is a\u00a0<strong>toxic mycotoxin<\/strong> produced\u00a0<strong>by several types of fungi.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is harmful to a wide range of creatures, including humans, mammals, plants, and microbes.<\/li>\n<li>It can grow on damaged or decaying fruits, especially apples.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impact on human health<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is responsible for a wide variety of health hazards, including nausea, lung\u00a0<strong>congestion, ulcers, intestinal hemorrhages<\/strong>, and even more serious outcomes\u2014such as DNA damage, immunosuppression and increased cancer risk.<\/li>\n<li>Treatment of patulin toxicity includes oxygen therapy, immunotherapy, detoxification therapy, and nutrient therapy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Desoxypatulinic acid?<\/h3>\n<p>Desoxypatulinic acid is a derivative of patulin and shares some structural similarities with it. While both patulin and desoxypatulinic acid are associated with mold-contaminated food, desoxypatulinic acid is considered less toxic than patulin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/science\/researchers-discover-how-fungus-helps-destroy-harmful-food-toxin\/1740606\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Researchers discover how fungus helps destroy harmful food toxin<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patulin is a toxic mycotoxin produced by several types of fungi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}