NaturalProductMech

congocidine

naturalproductmech:mibig-0a89c3541b MINTED SEEDED antiparasitic

Structure

Standard InChIKeyIDBIFFKSXLYUOT-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILESCN1C=C(C=C1C(=O)NC2=CN(C(=C2)C(=O)NCCC(=N)N)C)NC(=O)CN=C(N)N
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencespubchem:4461, npatlas:NPA018236

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 nrps, from MIBiG.

Producer organisms 2

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
Streptomyces netropsis
NCBITaxon:55404
BGC_CHARACTERIZED mibig:BGC0001147 PMID:25415678
Streptomyces ambofaciens ATCC 23877
NCBITaxon:278992
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000327 PMID:17074905

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
Streptomyces ambofaciens
NCBITaxon:1889
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/JOBM.200410529
Streptomyces ambofaciens
NCBITaxon:1889
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/J.CHEMBIOL.2009.03.010
Streptomyces ambofaciens
NCBITaxon:1889
LOTUS DOI:10.1099/MIC.0.29161-0
Streptomyces ambofaciens
NCBITaxon:1889
LOTUS DOI:10.1128/JB.01269-10
Streptomyces ambofaciens
NCBITaxon:1889
LOTUS DOI:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0099077
Streptomyces netropsis
NCBITaxon:55404
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/JA01145A113

Biosynthetic gene clusters 2

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0001147 Streptomyces netropsis
NCBITaxon:55404
CLUSTER_DEMONSTRATED genbank:KJ634466.1
mibig:BGC0000327 Streptomyces ambofaciens ATCC 23877
NCBITaxon:278992
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AM238664.2

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.

Causal graph — bioactivity 4 nodes, 4 edges

Congocidine/netropsin inhibition of recombinant Plasmodium falciparum 3D7 PfUDN ATPase and DNA-unwinding activities.

SubjectPredicateObjectEvidence
P. falciparum PfUDN fragment has activity PfUDN ssDNA-dependent ATPase activity DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0049385
P. falciparum PfUDN fragment has activity PfUDN DNA unwinding activity DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0049385
congocidine inhibits PfUDN ssDNA-dependent ATPase activity DOI:10.1186/1471-2091-15-9
congocidine inhibits PfUDN DNA unwinding activity DOI:10.1186/1471-2091-15-9

Every edge carries its own citation; an uncited edge is refused by the corpus tests.

Molecular targets 4

TargetAssay organismMeasurementReference
DNA helicase [35-727] Plasmodium falciparum
NCBITaxon:5833
IC50 3100 nM PMID:24707807
DNA helicase [35-727] Plasmodium falciparum
NCBITaxon:5833
IC50 4700 nM PMID:24707807
Plasminogen
UniProtKB:P00747
Homo sapiens
NCBITaxon:9606
IC50 40000 nM PMID:20429779
Urokinase-type plasminogen activator
UniProtKB:P00749
Homo sapiens
NCBITaxon:9606
IC50 30000 nM PMID:20429779

Bioactivities 4

AssayResultReference
Antiamidolytic Assay from Article 10.3109/14756360903389872: "Carbocyclic potential DNA minor groove binders and their biological evaluation."IC50 40 uMPMID:20429779
Antiamidolytic Assay from Article 10.3109/14756360903389872: "Carbocyclic potential DNA minor groove binders and their biological evaluation."IC50 30 uMPMID:20429779
DNA Helicase Assay from Article 10.1186/1471-2091-15-9: "Plasmodium falciparum UvrD activities are downregulated by DNA-interacting compounds and its dsRNA inhibits malaria parasite growth."IC50 4.7 uMPMID:24707807
DNA-Dependent ATPase Assay from Article 10.1186/1471-2091-15-9: "Plasmodium falciparum UvrD activities are downregulated by DNA-interacting compounds and its dsRNA inhibits malaria parasite growth."IC50 3.1 uMPMID:24707807

Open questions 1

shared-structure — This structure is reported by more than one MIBiG entry: BGC0000327, BGC0001147. Confirm they describe the same compound rather than an upstream cross-reference error.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0001147MIBIG4
BGC0000327MIBIG5

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