NaturalProductMech

asperlactone

CHEBI:156386 EXACT SEEDED antibacterial

A member of the class of butenolides that is furan-2(5H)-one substituted by (2S,3S)-3-methyloxiran-2-yl and (1S)-1-hydroxyethyl group at positions 3 and 5R, respectively. It is a secondary metabolite isolated from Aspergillus ochraceus that exhibits antifungal and antibacterial properties.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyVMLNPJDEXLLCQG-DGCAKLBHSA-N
SMILESC[C@H]1[C@@H](O1)C2=C[C@@H](OC2=O)[C@H](C)O
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencespubchem:156698

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 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
Aspergillus ochraceus
NCBITaxon:40380
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0001273 DOI:10.1021/acsomega.0c02489

Occurrences 8

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 creber
NCBITaxon:1220201
CHEBI PMID:31880876
Aspergillus melleus
NCBITaxon:138277
LOTUS DOI:10.1039/C39850001685
Aspergillus melleus
NCBITaxon:138277
LOTUS DOI:10.1039/P19840001021
Exophiala sp.
NCBITaxon:1718875
CHEBI PMID:18661951
Aspergillus ochraceopetaliformis
NCBITaxon:176175
CHEBI PMID:32875235
Aspergillus westerdijkiae
NCBITaxon:357447
CHEBI PMID:19589392
Exophiala
NCBITaxon:5583
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/NP800107C
Aspergillus ochraceus
NCBITaxon:40380
CHEBI 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9063(199805)53:1<9::AID-PS745>3.0.CO;2-P

Biosynthetic gene clusters 1

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0001273 Aspergillus ochraceus
NCBITaxon:40380
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AY540947.1

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
BGC0001273MIBIG3
CHEBI:156386CHEBI3-star

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