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IUPAC name 2-methoxy-3,5-dimethyl-6-[(2R,4Z)-4-[(E)-2-methyl-3-(4-nitrophenyl)prop-2-enylidene]oxolan-2-yl]pyran-4-one [1] | |
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C22H23NO6 | |
Molar mass | 397.427 g·mol−1 |
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa). |
Aureothin is a natural product of a cytotoxic shikimate-polyketide antibiotic with the molecular formula C22H23NO6. [2] [3] [1] Aureothin is produced by the bacterium Streptomyces thioluteus [3] [4] that illustrates antitumor, antifungal, and insecticidal activities and the new aureothin derivatives can be antifungal and antiproliferative. [2] In addition, aureothin, a nitro compound from Streptomyces thioluteus , was indicated to have pesticidal activity against the bean weevil [5] by interfering with mitochondrial respiratory complex II. [6]
Regarding the biosynthesis of aureothin, the biosynthetic pathway would be begun with chorismic acid . P-nitrobenzoate is derived from p-aminobenzoate by an N-oxygenase, which is encoded by aurF. [7] The aurF is one of the aureothin biosynthetic enzymes and it is referred to as a nonheme diiron oxygenase that is responsible for converting p-aminobenzoate to p-nitrobenzoate. [8] Moreover, the aurF catalyzes a reaction of a complete six-electron oxidation utilizing two equivalents of dioxygen and two exogenous electrons in order to convert p-aminobenzoate to p-nitrobenzoate. [8] Then, three type I Polyketide Synthases (PKSs), which is encoded by aurA, aurB, and aurC, generates the a polyketide chain using p-nitrobenzoate as a starter unit [9] for the biosynthesis of aureothin. At this point, the repetition that one molecule catalyzes two successive cycles of chain extension would occur in the reaction of the type I Polyketide Synthase (PKS). [10] In particular, the two consecutive cycles containing four times of methylmalonyl-CoA and one time of malonyl-CoA occur during the type I Polyketide Synthase (PKS). After O-methylation is activated by a methyltransferase, which is encoded by aurI, the tetrahydrofuran ring formation is produced by a monooxygenase that is encoded by aurH. Therefore, the final product, aureothin, is produced as a result of the monooxygenase encoded by aurH. [11]