NaturalProductMech

violacein

naturalproductmech:mibig-8538472b7e MINTED SEEDED

Structure

Standard InChIKeyXAPNKXIRQFHCHN-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILESOC1=CC2=C(NC=C2C2=CC(C(=O)N2)=C2C(=O)NC3=C2C=CC=C3)C=C1
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencesnpatlas:NPA015879, pubchem:9928039

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 other, from MIBiG.

Producer organisms 0

None. The compound has a characterized gene cluster whose host NCBI does not name, which for an uncultured symbiont is the honest state — see the discussion below.

Occurrences 5

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
Pseudoalteromonas tunicata
NCBITaxon:314281
LOTUS DOI:10.3390/10101286
Chromobacterium violaceum
NCBITaxon:536
LOTUS DOI:10.1007/S00253-011-3468-Z
Chromobacterium violaceum
NCBITaxon:536
LOTUS DOI:10.1007/S12275-015-5173-6
Chromobacterium violaceum
NCBITaxon:536
LOTUS DOI:10.1271/BBB.57.775
Escherichia coli
NCBITaxon:562
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/OL0509585

Biosynthetic gene clusters 1

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0000830 not named CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AF367409.1

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.

Open questions 1

unnamed-producer — No producer claim is written from BGC0000830, which gives NCBITaxon:77133 (uncultured bacterium — shared by every unplaced bacterium), because the taxon names no single organism. The cluster is kept: a characterized locus is an origin assertion whether or not its host has a name, and for a compound from an uncultured symbiont that is the honest state. Name the producer if the primary literature does.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0000830MIBIG5

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