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The different antioxidant and anticancer activities depending on the color of oyster mushrooms.

@article{JeongHan2009TheDA,
  title={The different antioxidant and anticancer activities depending on the color of oyster mushrooms.},
  author={Kim Jeong-Han and Kim Sunjung and Park HaeRyong and Choi Jong-in and Ju YoungCheoul and Nam KiChang and Kim Suk-Ju and Lee Seung-Cheol},
  journal={Journal of Medicinal Plants Research},
  year={2009},
  volume={3},
  pages={1016-1020}
}

• Kim Jeong-Han, Kim Sunjung, +5 authors Lee Seung-Cheol
• Published 31 December 2009
• Biology
• Journal of Medicinal Plants Research

Oyster mushroom is a popular edible mushroom which has various colorful fruit bodies. The objective 

of this study was to determine the antioxidant and the anticancer activities of oyster mushrooms (OM) 

with different colors such as dark-grey strain (Pleurotus ostreatus), yellow strain (Pleurotus 

cornucopiae), and pink strain (Pleurotus salmoneostramineus). The methanolic extracts from OMs 

were prepared for this study. Among these OMs, the extract from the yellow strain showed the highest 

radical scavenging activity, reducing power, ferrous chelating ability, and total phenolic contents. 

Radical scavenging activity of yellow strain was about 3 times higher than that of dark-grey strain. On 

the other hand, the extracts of dark-grey and pink strains showed higher suppressive effect against 

growth of human colon cancer cell line HT-29 with survival rates of 39.9 and 40.7%, respectively, than 

that of yellow strain. These results showed that the antioxidant and the anticancer activities of OMs 

varied by the colors of fruit bodies. 

Key words: Pleurotus species, oyster mushroom, antioxidant, anticancer.