Abstract
A series of alkyl phenyl selenides has been incubated with the fungi Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus foetidus, Mortierella isabellina, and Helminthosporium sp. These fungi oxidize the corresponding sulfides to sulfoxides efficiently, but in no case was any evidence obtained that the microbial oxidation of selenide to selenoxide was occurring. The fate of methyl phenyl selenide following incubation with M. isabellina was investigated using methyl- 14C-labeled substrate, and by quantitative selenium analysis. These techniques indicate that the selenide is taken into the fungal cell efficiently and that some metabolic cleavage of the selenium-methyl carbon bond may occur.
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