Injury‐Triggered Blueing Reactions of Psilocybe “Magic” Mushrooms
Angewandte Chemie International Edition November 14, 2019 Claudius Lenz, Jonas Wick, Daniel Braga et al. 56 citations
Abstract Upon injury, psychotropic psilocybin‐producing mushrooms instantly develop an intense blue color, the chemical basis and mode of formation of which has remained elusive. We report two enzymes from Psilocybe cubensis that carry out a two‐step cascade to prepare psilocybin for oxidative oligomerization that leads to blue products. The phosphatase PsiP removes the 4‐ O ‐phosphate group to...