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terrequinone A

CHEBI:64534 EXACT SEEDED

A bisindole alkaloid that is quinone bearing a hydroxy substituent at position 2, a 3,3-dimethylallyl group at position 5 and two indol-3-yl groups at positions 3 and 6, one of which is carrying a 1,1-dimethylallyl group at position 2.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyHBMHEGGZNWXZRA-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILESCC(C)=CCC1=C(C2=CNC3=C2C=CC=C3)C(=O)C(O)=C(C2=C(NC3=C2C=CC=C3)C(C)(C)C=C)C1=O
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencesnpatlas:NPA05272

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 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
BGC_CHARACTERIZED mibig:BGC0000442 PMID:16426969

Occurrences 2

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
Aspergillus terreus
NCBITaxon:33178
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/NP040139D
Aspergillus
NCBITaxon:5052
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/NP040139D

Biosynthetic gene clusters 1

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0000442 Aspergillus nidulans FGSC A4
NCBITaxon:227321
CLUSTER_DEMONSTRATED genbank:BN001305.1

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
BGC0000442MIBIG5
CHEBI:64534CHEBI3-star

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