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aflatoxin B2

CHEBI:48209 EXACT SEEDED toxin

An aflatoxin having a hexahydrocyclopenta[c]furo[3',2':4,5]furo[2,3-h]chromene skeleton with oxygen functionality at positions 1, 4 and 11.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyWWSYXEZEXMQWHT-WNWIJWBNSA-N
SMILESCOc1cc2c(c3c1c4c(c(=O)o3)C(=O)CC4)[C@@H]5CCO[C@@H]5O2
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencesnpatlas:NPA010640, pubchem:2724360

Filing pathway

Polyketides — 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 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
Aspergillus flavus
NCBITaxon:5059
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000006 DOI:10.1534/g3.120.401405
Aspergillus flavus
NCBITaxon:5059
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000008 DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0199169
Aspergillus ochraceoroseus
NCBITaxon:138278
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000011 DOI:10.1080/15572536.2006.11832818

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
Aspergillus nomiae
NCBITaxon:41061
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-179760-7.50023-1
Aspergillus parasiticus
NCBITaxon:5067
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-179760-7.50023-1
Glycyrrhiza uralensis
NCBITaxon:74613
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/J.FOODCONT.2012.11.028
Aspergillus flavus
NCBITaxon:5059
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-179760-7.50023-1

Biosynthetic gene clusters 3

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0000006 Aspergillus flavus
NCBITaxon:5059
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AY510451.1
mibig:BGC0000008 Aspergillus flavus
NCBITaxon:5059
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AY510453.1
mibig:BGC0000011 Aspergillus ochraceoroseus
NCBITaxon:138278
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AY092402.3

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 3

AssayResultReference
CCRIS carcinogenicity studiesACTIVEpubchem.aid:1259411
CCRIS mutagenicity studiesACTIVEpubchem.aid:1259407
GENE-TOX mutagenicity studiesACTIVEpubchem.aid:1259408

Open questions 1

shared-structure — This structure is reported by more than one MIBiG entry: BGC0000006, BGC0000008, BGC0000011. Confirm they describe the same compound rather than an upstream cross-reference error.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0000006MIBIG3
BGC0000008MIBIG3
BGC0000011MIBIG3
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