Microbiological transformations of steroids VI Amortization of 19-hydroxyandrosta-4,7-diene-3,17-dione into equilin

Washed mycelia and nongerminating spores of Fusarium solani aromatized 19-hydroxyandrosta-4, 7-diene-3, 17-dione into equilin and equilenin. The transformation was more complex with the mycelia rather than with the other unidentified products were formed early in the transformation. Substrate transforming enzymes appear to be induced in the mycelium and constitutive in the spores