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colistin B

CHEBI:59673 EXACT SEEDED antibacterial

A polymyxin having a 6-methylheptanoyl group at the amino terminus.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyKNIWPHSUTGNZST-SSWRVQTPSA-N
SMILESC[C@H]([C@H]1C(=O)NCC[C@@H](C(=O)N[C@H](C(=O)N[C@@H](C(=O)N[C@H](C(=O)N[C@H](C(=O)N[C@H](C(=O)N1)CCN)CCN)CC(C)C)CC(C)C)CCN)NC(=O)[C@H](CCN)NC(=O)[C@H]([C@@H](C)O)NC(=O)[C@H](CCN)NC(=O)CCCCC(C)C)O
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencespubchem:25138298

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 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
Paenibacillus alvei
NCBITaxon:44250
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0001192 PMID:25609230

Occurrences 0

None cited.

Biosynthetic gene clusters 1

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0001192 Paenibacillus alvei
NCBITaxon:44250
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:KP262070.1

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

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0001192MIBIG5
CHEBI:59673CHEBI3-star

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