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bongkrekic acid

CHEBI:77742 EXACT SEEDED

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A tricarboxylic acid that is docosa-2,4,8,10,14,18,20-heptaenedioic acid substituted at positions 2 ,5 and 17 by methyl groups, at positions 6 by a methoxy group and at position 20 by a carboxymethyl group. It is produced by the bacterium Burkholderia gladioli and implicated in outbreaks of food-borne illness involving coconut and corn-based products in Indonesia and China.

Structure

Standard InChIKeySHCXABJSXUACKU-WUTQZGRKSA-N
SMILESC[C@@H](C/C=C/CC/C=C/C=C\C[C@H](/C(=C\C=C(/C)\C(=O)O)/C)OC)/C=C/C(=C\C(=O)O)/CC(=O)O
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencesnpatlas:NPA017560

Filing pathway

Fatty acids — 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 pks, 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
Burkholderia gladioli
NCBITaxon:28095
BGC_CHARACTERIZED mibig:BGC0000173 PMID:22999884

Occurrences 4

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
Burkholderia gladioli
NCBITaxon:28095
LOTUS DOI:10.1002/RECL.19570760103
Burkholderia gladioli
NCBITaxon:28095
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/J.CHEMBIOL.2012.07.022
Burkholderia gladioli
NCBITaxon:28095
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/BI00656A012
Burkholderia gladioli
NCBITaxon:28095
CHEBI PMID:28105575

Biosynthetic gene clusters 1

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0000173 Burkholderia gladioli
NCBITaxon:28095
CLUSTER_DEMONSTRATED genbank:JX173632.1

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.

Mechanism & Biosynthesis Overview

PRODUCERS & OCCURRENCE 1 producer (1 causal) 4 cited occurrences BIOSYNTHETIC LOCUS 1 gene cluster 0 curated pathway steps NATURAL PRODUCT bongkrekic acid CHEBI:77742 Fatty acids TARGETS & BIOACTIVITY 0 molecular targets 0 bioactivities · 0 graphs

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Open questions 1

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

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0000173MIBIG5
CHEBI:77742CHEBI3-star

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