Inducing secondary metabolite production by the endophytic fungus Chaetomium sp. through fungal–bacterial co-culture and epigenetic modification

Co-culturing the fungal endophyte Chaetomium sp. with the bacterium Bacillus subtilis on solid rice medium resulted in an up to 8.3-fold increase in the accumulation of constitutively present metabolites that included a 1:1 mixture of 3- and 4-hydroxybenzoic acid methyl esters (1 and 2, respectively), and the polyketides acremonisol A (3), SB236050 (4), and SB238569 (5). In addition, seven compounds including isosulochrin (6), protocatechuic...