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swainsonine

CHEBI:9367 EXACT SEEDED cytotoxicenzyme inhibitor

An indolizidine alkaloid isolated from the plant Swainsona canescens with three hydroxy substituents at positions 1, 2 and 8.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyFXUAIOOAOAVCGD-WCTZXXKLSA-N
SMILESC1C[C@H]([C@@H]2[C@@H]([C@@H](CN2C1)O)O)O
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencespubchem:51683

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, pks, from MIBiG.

Producer organisms 3

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
Metarhizium robertsii ARSEF 23
NCBITaxon:655844
BGC_CHARACTERIZED mibig:BGC0002270 PMID:32786262
Chaetothyriaceae sp.
NCBITaxon:1963369
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0001793 DOI:10.7150/ijbs.3882
Alternaria oxytropis
NCBITaxon:570715
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0001794 PMID:28381497

Occurrences 25

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
Slafractonia leguminicola
NCBITaxon:1541393
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(01)97625-2
Slafractonia leguminicola
NCBITaxon:1541393
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/JA00211A039
Slafractonia leguminicola
NCBITaxon:1541393
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/JO00390A024
Slafractonia leguminicola
NCBITaxon:1541393
LOTUS DOI:10.1128/AEM.48.2.386-388.1984
Astragalus whitneyi
NCBITaxon:1769941
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Oxytropis riparia
NCBITaxon:1938221
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Astragalus flavus
NCBITaxon:2014685
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Astragalus bisulcatus
NCBITaxon:20406
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Astragalus hallii
NCBITaxon:20413
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Astragalus lentiginosus
NCBITaxon:20416
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Astragalus lentiginosus
NCBITaxon:20416
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.713
Astragalus lentiginosus
NCBITaxon:20416
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/BI00459A032
Astragalus purshii
NCBITaxon:20422
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Oxytropis lambertii
NCBITaxon:20805
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Oxytropis lambertii
NCBITaxon:20805
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/JF010596P
Castanospermum australe
NCBITaxon:24962
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/NP50069A011
Ipomoea calobra
NCBITaxon:2607090
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/NP50120A009
Astragalus pycnostachyus
NCBITaxon:2897604
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Astragalus emoryanus
NCBITaxon:3084112
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Astragalus emoryanus
NCBITaxon:3084112
LOTUS DOI:10.1104/PP.76.4.972
Fabaceae
NCBITaxon:3803
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Astragalus wootonii
NCBITaxon:457888
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Astragalus falcatus
NCBITaxon:47038
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Oxytropis glabra
NCBITaxon:483874
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/PCA.2800020307
Swainsona canescens
NCBITaxon:491199
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/S0021-9258(18)32772-8

Biosynthetic gene clusters 3

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0002270 Metarhizium robertsii ARSEF 23
NCBITaxon:655844
CLUSTER_DEMONSTRATED genbank:ADNJ02000001.1
mibig:BGC0001793 Chaetothyriaceae sp.
NCBITaxon:1963369
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:KY365740.1
mibig:BGC0001794 Alternaria oxytropis
NCBITaxon:570715
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:KY365741.1

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.

Causal graph — bioactivity 2 nodes, 1 edges

Swainsonine inhibits Drosophila Golgi alpha-mannosidase II.

SubjectPredicateObjectEvidence
swainsonine inhibits Drosophila Golgi alpha-mannosidase II DOI:10.1002/cbic.200900750

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

Bioactivities 9

AssayResultReference
Confirmatory qHTS for small molecule stabilizers of the endoplasmic reticulum resident proteome: Secreted ER Calcium Modulated Protein (SERCaMP) assay0.1 uMPMID:33910017
Confirmatory qHTS for small molecule stabilizers of the endoplasmic reticulum resident proteome: Secreted ER Calcium Modulated Protein (SERCaMP) assay31.6228 uMPMID:33910017
Experimentally measured binding affinity data (IC50) for protein-ligand complexes derived from PDBIC50 0.02 uMPMID:11406577
Golgi α-Mannosidase II (alpha-hGMII) and α-Mannosidase (alpha-hLM) Activity Assay from US Patent US20240190866: "POLYHYDROXYLATED INDOLIZIDINE AND PYRROLIZIDINE DERIVATIVES AND USES THEREOF"IC50 0.08 uMpubchem.aid:1964041
Golgi α-Mannosidase II (alpha-hGMII) and α-Mannosidase (alpha-hLM) Activity Assay from US Patent US20240190866: "POLYHYDROXYLATED INDOLIZIDINE AND PYRROLIZIDINE DERIVATIVES AND USES THEREOF"IC50 0.04 uMpubchem.aid:1964041
Inhibition Assay from Article 10.1002/cbic.200900750: "Structural investigation of the binding of 5-substituted swainsonine analogues to Golgi alpha-mannosidase II."KI 0.003 uMPMID:20209559
Primary qHTS for delayed death inhibitors of the malarial parasite plastid, 96 hour incubation9.5283 uMpubchem.aid:504834
qHTS assay for identifying genotoxic compounds that show differential cytotoxicity against isogenic chicken DT40 cell lines with known DNA damage response pathways - Rev3 mutant cell line26.6032 uMpubchem.aid:743014
Experimentally measured binding affinity data derived from PDBACTIVEPMID:11406577

Open questions 1

shared-structure — This structure is reported by more than one MIBiG entry: BGC0001793, BGC0001794, BGC0002270. Confirm they describe the same compound rather than an upstream cross-reference error.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0002270MIBIG2
BGC0001793MIBIG4
BGC0001794MIBIG4
CHEBI:9367CHEBI3-star

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