2022 journal article

Waterless Dyeing and In Vitro Toxicological Properties of Biocolorants from Cortinarius sanguineus

JOURNAL OF FUNGI, 8(11).

By: M. Herrala *, J. Yli-oyra *, A. Albuquerque *, N. Farias *, D. Morales *, R. Raisanen *, H. Freeman n, G. Umbuzeiro*, J. Rysa *

author keywords: bloodred webcap; dermocybin; dermorubin; emodin; fungal colorants; supercritical CO2; toxicity; waterless dyeing
TL;DR: The results indicate that dermocybin and dermorubin possess the technical and toxicological properties needed for consideration as synthetic dye alternatives under conditions that are free of wastewater production. (via Semantic Scholar)
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6. Clean Water and Sanitation (OpenAlex)
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Added: November 21, 2022

As a part of an ongoing interest in identifying environmentally friendly alternatives to synthetic dyes and in using liquid CO2 as a waterless medium for applying the resulting colorants to textiles, our attention turned to yellow-to-red biocolorants produced by Cortinarius sanguineus fungus. The three principal target anthraquinone colorants (emodin, dermocybin, and dermorubin) were isolated from the fungal bodies using a liquid–liquid separation method and characterized using 700 MHz NMR and high-resolution mass spectral analyses. Following structure confirmations, the three colorants were examined for dyeing synthetic polyester (PET) textile fibers in supercritical CO2. We found that all three biocolorants were suitable for dyeing PET fibers using this technology, and our attention then turned to determining their toxicological properties. As emodin has shown mutagenic potential in previous studies, we concentrated our present toxicity studies on dermocybin and dermorubin. Both colorants were non-mutagenic, presented low cellular toxicity, and did not induce skin sensitization. Taken together, our results indicate that dermocybin and dermorubin possess the technical and toxicological properties needed for consideration as synthetic dye alternatives under conditions that are free of wastewater production.