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microcystin-LR

CHEBI:6925 EXACT SEEDED cytotoxic

A microcystin consisting of D-alanyl, L-leucyl, (3S)-3-methyl-D-β-aspartyl,L-arginyl, 2S,3S,4E,6E,8S,9S)-3-amino-4,5,6,7-tetradehydro-9-methoxy-2,6,8-trimethyl-10-phenyldecanoyl, D-γ-glutamyl, and 2,3-didehydro-N-methylalanyl residues joined into a 25-membered macrocycle. Produced by the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa, it is the most studied of the microcystins.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyZYZCGGRZINLQBL-GWRQVWKTSA-N
SMILESC[C@H]1[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@H]([C@@H](NC(=O)[C@@H](NC(=O)[C@H](NC(=O)C(=C)N(C(=O)CC[C@@H](NC1=O)C(=O)O)C)C)CC(C)C)C(=O)O)C)CCCN=C(N)N)/C=C/C(=C/[C@H](C)[C@H](CC2=CC=CC=C2)OC)/C
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencespubchem:445434, chembl:CHEMBL444092, npatlas:NPA0593

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, 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
Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806
NCBITaxon:267872
BGC_CHARACTERIZED mibig:BGC0001017 PMID:11033079
Anabaena sp. 90
NCBITaxon:46234
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0001016 PMID:14766543
Fischerella sp. CENA161
NCBITaxon:548826
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0001667 PMID:29154789

Occurrences 24

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
Microcystis
NCBITaxon:1125
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/0041-0101(94)90030-2
Microcystis
NCBITaxon:1125
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/ES00050A024
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/0040-4020(96)00452-8
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/0041-0101(88)90200-0
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/0041-0101(95)00145-X
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/S0021-9673(01)84589-1
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/S1074-5521(00)00021-1
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/ACS.JNATPROD.7B00986
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/JA00013A066
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/JO00029A016
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1039/P19850002747
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
CYANOMETDB DOI:10.1039/p19850002747
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1073/PNAS.86.3.770
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1081/JLC-120003265
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.1515/BCHM3.1993.374.7-12.635
Microcystis aeruginosa
NCBITaxon:1126
LOTUS DOI:10.5694/J.1326-5377.1983.TB136192.X
Anabaena
NCBITaxon:1163
LOTUS DOI:10.1128/AEM.70.2.686-692.2004
Aphanizomenon flos-aquae
NCBITaxon:1176
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/0041-0101(92)90522-7
Fischerella
NCBITaxon:1190
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/J.TOXICON.2017.10.021
Romanoa
NCBITaxon:316894
LOTUS DOI:10.1128/AEM.70.2.686-692.2004
Microcystis viridis
NCBITaxon:44822
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/0041-0101(88)90200-0
Microcystis viridis
NCBITaxon:44822
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/0041-0101(90)90006-S
Microcystis viridis
NCBITaxon:44822
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/S0021-9673(01)84589-1
Nodularia spumigena
NCBITaxon:70799
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(00)61500-9

Biosynthetic gene clusters 3

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0001017 Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806
NCBITaxon:267872
CLUSTER_DEMONSTRATED genbank:AF183408.1
mibig:BGC0001016 Anabaena sp. 90
NCBITaxon:46234
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AY212249.1
mibig:BGC0001667 Fischerella sp. CENA161
NCBITaxon:548826
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:KX891213.1

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.

Bioactivities 1

AssayResultReference
NCI human tumor cell line growth inhibition assay. Data for the IGROV1 Ovarian cell lineACTIVEpubchem.aid:101

Open questions 2

name-disagreement — ChEBI calls this structure 'microcystin-LR' and MIBiG calls it 'microcystin LR'. 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: BGC0001016, BGC0001017, BGC0001667. Confirm they describe the same compound rather than an upstream cross-reference error.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0001017MIBIG5
BGC0001016MIBIG5
BGC0001667MIBIG4
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