NaturalProductMech

asperthecin

CHEBI:64161 EXACT SEEDED

An anthraquinone pigment obtained from the mould Aspergillus nidulans.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyDLOLMYKOOZLTPY-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILESOCC1=CC2=C(C(O)=C1O)C(=O)C1=C(C(O)=C(O)C=C1O)C2=O
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencesnpatlas:NPA05176

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 nidulans FGSC A4
NCBITaxon:227321
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000684 PMID:18978088

Occurrences 2

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 nidulans
NCBITaxon:162425
LOTUS DOI:10.1128/AEM.01743-08
Aspergillus quadrilineatus
NCBITaxon:41735
LOTUS DOI:10.1042/BJ0590475

Biosynthetic gene clusters 1

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0000684 Aspergillus nidulans FGSC A4
NCBITaxon:227321
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:BN001301.1

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.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0000684MIBIG4
CHEBI:64161CHEBI3-star

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