NaturalProductMech

cichorine

CHEBI:64977 EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of isoindoles that is 6-hydroxy-4-methoxy-5-methyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-isoindol-1-one which is substituted at position 4, 5, and 6 by methoxy, methyl, and hydroxy groups, respectively. A secondary metabolite found in Aspergillus silvativus, Aspergillus nidulans and Alternaria cichorii, it is poisonous to Russian knapweed (Acroptilon repens).

Structure

Standard InChIKeyICZVDXDXJQCDOJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILESCC1=C(C=C2C(=C1OC)CNC2=O)O
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencespubchem:442849

Filing pathway

Alkaloids — computed by NPClassifier npclassifier.gnps2.org@2026-09-07, which is why it is pinned rather than recomputed. The gene cluster's asserted class is pks, from MIBiG.

Producer organisms 1

A claim that this taxon makes the compound. The basis says what the evidence addressed — a knockout and a database assertion are not the same claim.

TaxonBasisClusterEvidence
Aspergillus nidulans FGSC A4
NCBITaxon:227321
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000037 PMID:22510154

Occurrences 6

Somebody found the compound in this organism and cited it. That is not a claim that the organism makes it, and nothing here promotes one to the other.

TaxonSourceReference
Althaea officinalis
NCBITaxon:145745
LOTUS DOI:10.1007/BF00630189
Aspergillus nidulans
NCBITaxon:162425
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/JA3016395
Alternaria cichorii
NCBITaxon:378258
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)95080-5
Althaea armeniaca
NCBITaxon:446321
LOTUS DOI:10.1007/BF00630189
Sonchus asper
NCBITaxon:50193
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/0305-1978(93)90062-V
Sonchus maritimus
NCBITaxon:50206
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/0305-1978(93)90062-V

Biosynthetic gene clusters 1

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0000037 Aspergillus nidulans FGSC A4
NCBITaxon:227321
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:BN001301.1

A locus claim and a taxon claim are different questions. Heterologous expression settles the first and leaves the second where the isolation report left it.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0000037MIBIG4
CHEBI:64977CHEBI3-star

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