Speculative Species

In Speculative Evolution, we envisioned how species could be further developed to increase their resilience based on scientific publications on synthetic biology, genetic engineering and robotics, and formulated text prompts to create AI-generated images using DALL-E. As a result, each speculative species in the environment has a backstory rooted in real-life scenarios.
 
 


Filamentous fungi
Filamentous fungi
2021genetically engineered for cosmetics and health foods
International trade by Jiang et al., 2021
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Lineage of the 53 species from a total of 69

    • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Zurich, Switzerland (45-1)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-1-1Samsung P613, Android 14, Sneedville, United States (45-1-1)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-1-1-1, Android 11, Cebu City, Philippines (45-1-1-1)
          • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-1-1-1-1Samsung G955U, Android 9, , China (45-1-1-1-1)
    • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-12Samsung G955U, Android 9, , China (45-12)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-12-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-12-1)
    • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4, Android 11, , United States (45-4)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-1Samsung T738U, Android 13, , United States (45-4-1)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-1-1Samsung A415F, Android 12, Lyon, France (45-4-1-1)
          • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-1-1-1Samsung G781V, Android 13, Springdale, United States (45-4-1-1-1)
            • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-1-1-1-1, Android 12, Neuquén, Argentina (45-4-1-1-1-1)
              • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-1-1-1-1-1, Android 11, Richmond, United States (45-4-1-1-1-1-1)
                • Filamentous fungi, Android 11, Richmond, United States (45-4-1-1-1-1-1)
                  • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-1-1-1-1-1-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Schaffhausen, Switzerland (45-4-1-1-1-1-1-1-1)
            • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-1-1-1-2Samsung G955U, Android 9, , China (45-4-1-1-1-2)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-1-2, Android 11, Berazategui, Argentina (45-4-1-2)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-2Samsung A125U, Android 12, , United States (45-4-2)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-2-1, Android 14, Wittmund, Germany (45-4-2-1)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-3Samsung G955F, Android 9, Berlin, Germany (45-4-3)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-3-1Samsung S928B, Android 14, São Paulo, Brazil (45-4-3-1)
          • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-3-1-1Huawei JNY, Android 10, Johannesburg, South Africa (45-4-3-1-1)
          • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-3-1-2Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-4-3-1-2)
            • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-3-1-2-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-4-3-1-2-1)
          • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-4-3-1-3Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-4-3-1-3)
    • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-6Samsung A536E, Android 14, Trujillo, Peru (45-6)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-6-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Berlin, Germany (45-6-1)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-6-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-6-1-1)
          • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-6-1-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-6-1-1-1)
          • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-6-1-1-2Samsung G955U, Android 9, Xi'an, China (45-6-1-1-2)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-6-2Samsung A546E, Android 14, São Paulo, Brazil (45-6-2)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-6-3Samsung G950F, Android 9, São Paulo, Brazil (45-6-3)
    • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7Samsung A920F, Android 10, Alberton, South Africa (45-7)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-1Samsung G950F, Android 9, São Paulo, Brazil (45-7-1)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Schaffhausen, Switzerland (45-7-1-1)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-1-2Samsung G955U, Android 9, Basel, Switzerland (45-7-1-2)
          • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-1-2-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-7-1-2-1)
            • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-1-2-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-7-1-2-1-1)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-1-3Samsung G955U, Android 9, Basel, Switzerland (45-7-1-3)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-1-4Samsung G955U, Android 9, Basel, Switzerland (45-7-1-4)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-1-5Huawei JNY, Android 10, Johannesburg, South Africa (45-7-1-5)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-1-6Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-7-1-6)
          • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-1-6-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-7-1-6-1)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-1-7Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-7-1-7)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-7-2Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-7-2)
    • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-8Samsung T720, Android 11, Jose C. Paz, Argentina (45-8)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-8-1Samsung G950F, Android 9, São Paulo, Brazil (45-8-1)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-8-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-8-1-1)
          • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-8-1-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-8-1-1-1)
    • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-9Samsung T720, Android 11, Del Viso, Argentina (45-9)
      • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-9-1Samsung T720, Android 11, Del Viso, Argentina (45-9-1)
        • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-9-1-1Samsung G950F, Android 9, São Paulo, Brazil (45-9-1-1)
          • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-9-1-1-1Samsung G955F, Android 9, Lucerne, Switzerland (45-9-1-1-1)
            • Filamentous fungi, Species 45-9-1-1-1-1Samsung N975F, Android 12, Barranquilla, Colombia (45-9-1-1-1-1)

Glycosphingolipids in Filamentous Fungi: Biological Roles and Potential Applications in Cosmetics and Health Foods

Front. Microbiol., 22 July 2021, Sec. Food Microbiology, Volume 12 - 2021, doi:10.3389/fmicb.2021.690211
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.690211/full

Abstract

Filamentous fungi are a group of economically important fungi used in the production of fermented foods, industrial enzymes, and secondary metabolites. Glycosphingolipids (GSLs) as constituents of lipid rafts are involved in growth, differentiation, and response to environment stress in filamentous fungi. In addition to these key roles, GSLs are also important in the barrier function of skin to retain moisture as a moisturizing ingredient in cosmetics or health products for their strong biological activity as a functional component. GSLs found in filamentous fungi are divided in two major classes: neutral GSLs (glycosylceramides), glucosylceramides (GlcCers), and/or galactosylceramides (GalCers) and acidic GSLs, mannosylinositol phosphorylceramide (MIPC) and mannosyldiinositol phosphorylceramide [M(IP)2C]. Glycosylceramides are one of the abundant GSLs in Aspergillus and known to improve skin-barrier function and prevent intestinal impairment as a prebiotic. Some filamentous fungi of Aspergillus spp., synthesizing both GlcCer and GalCer, would be an amenable source to exploit glycosylceramides that wildly adding in cosmetics as moisturizing ingredients or health food as dietary supplements. In this minireview, the types, structures, and biosynthetic pathways of GSLs in filamentous fungi, and the relevance of GSLs in fungal growth, spore formation, and environmental stress response are explained. Furthermore, the advantage, potential development, and application of GlcCer and GalCer from filamentous fungi Aspergillus spp. are also investigate based on the use of plant GlcCer in health foods and cosmetics.
Kinds and structures of glycosphingolipid in filamentous fungi. (A) Structure of ceramide; the basic unit of neutral and acidic glycosphingolipids; made up of a LCBs and a FA moiety. (B) Structure of neutral glycosphingolipid which is linked to a sugar residue on the base of ceramide. Neutral glycosphingolipid contains an-OH moiety at C2 in the FA chain (showed with red ellipse); a double bond between C4–5 and C8–9; and a methyl C9 of the LCB. Monosaccharide may be either glucosyl (Glc) (R1 = OH, R2 = H) or galactosyl (Gal) residues (R1 = H, R2 = OH). (C) The basic structure of acidic glycosphingolipid, inositol phosphorylceramide, is shown. Inositol phosphorylceramide is different from neutral glycosphingolipids in that it contains an additional hydroxy at C4 of the LCB (showed with green ellipse) and lacks double bonds between C4–5 and C8–9, and the C9 methyl of the LCB. In addition, acidic glycosphingolipids are composed of a very long FA chain (C18–26) instead of the C16–18 chain that found in neutral glycosphingolipids.