NaturalProductMech

aztreonam

CHEBI:161680 EXACT SEEDED antibacterial

A synthetic monocyclic β-lactam antibiotic (monobactam), used primarily to treat infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria. It inhibits mucopeptide synthesis in the bacterial cell wall, thereby blocking peptidoglycan crosslinking.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyWZPBZJONDBGPKJ-VEHQQRBSSA-N
SMILESC[C@H]1[C@@H](C(=O)N1S(=O)(=O)[O-])NC(=O)/C(=N\OC(C)(C)C(=O)O)/C2=CSC(=N2)[NH3+]
Stereochemistryfully defined

Filing pathway

Amino acids and peptides — 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
Agrobacterium tumefaciens
NCBITaxon:358
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0001671 url:https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/22190/2/Walker_Chelsea_G_finalsubmission2017June_MasterofScience.pdf
[Flexibacter] sp. ATCC 35103
NCBITaxon:1937528
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0001672 url:https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/22190/2/Walker_Chelsea_G_finalsubmission2017June_MasterofScience.pdf

Occurrences 0

None cited.

Biosynthetic gene clusters 2

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0001671 Agrobacterium tumefaciens
NCBITaxon:358
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:KY452017.1
mibig:BGC0001672 [Flexibacter] sp. ATCC 35103
NCBITaxon:1937528
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:KY502195.1

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.

Elsewhere in the fleet

Open questions 2

name-disagreement — ChEBI calls this structure 'aztreonam' and MIBiG calls it 'monobactam'. They share a Standard InChIKey, so if the names denote different compounds then one upstream record has the wrong structure. Check which.

shared-structure — This structure is reported by more than one MIBiG entry: BGC0001671, BGC0001672. Confirm they describe the same compound rather than an upstream cross-reference error.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0001671MIBIG3
BGC0001672MIBIG3
CHEBI:161680CHEBI3-star

This page is generated from data/natural_products/amino_acids_and_peptides/aztreonam.yaml, which is generated from the committed inventories. Neither is edited by hand.