Screening of wood damaging fungi and macrofungi for inhibitors of pancreatic lipase.

A total of 120 methanol and dichloromethane extracts, from 60 species of wood-damaging fungi and 50 methanol/water extracts from macrofungi were screened for inhibition of pancreatic lipase using the chromogenic substrate p-nitrophenylpalmitate. Of the extracts screened, those from Laetiporus sulphureus, Tylopilus felleus and Hygrocybe conica exhibited the highest lipase inhibitory activities of 83% +/- 5%, 96% +/- 3% and 97% +/- 5%, respectively.