NaturalProductMech

lovastatin

naturalproductmech:mibig-1824ca86bb MINTED SEEDED

Structure

Standard InChIKeyPCZOHLXUXFIOCF-YPQFMRJXSA-N
SMILES[H][C@]12[C@H](C[C@@H](C)C=C1C=C[C@H](C)[C@@H]2CC[C@@H]1C[C@@H](O)CC(=O)O1)OC(=O)[C@H](C)CC
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencesnpatlas:NPA09354, pubchem:129467

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 2

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 terreus
NCBITaxon:33178
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000088 DOI:10.1016/j.fct.2019.110585
Monascus pilosus
NCBITaxon:89488
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000098 PMID:18578535

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 terreus
NCBITaxon:33178
LOTUS DOI:10.7164/ANTIBIOTICS.33.334
Monascus pilosus
NCBITaxon:89488
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/JF800595K

Biosynthetic gene clusters 2

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0000088 Aspergillus terreus
NCBITaxon:33178
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AH007774.2
mibig:BGC0000098 Monascus pilosus
NCBITaxon:89488
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:DQ176595.1

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.

Open questions 1

shared-structure — This structure is reported by more than one MIBiG entry: BGC0000088, BGC0000098. Confirm they describe the same compound rather than an upstream cross-reference error.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0000088MIBIG4
BGC0000098MIBIG3

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