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6-methylsalicylic acid

CHEBI:17637 EXACT SEEDED

A monohydroxybenzoic acid that is salicylic acid in which the hydrogen ortho to the carboxylic acid group is substituted by a methyl group.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyHCJMNOSIAGSZBM-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILESCC1=C(C(=CC=C1)O)C(=O)O
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencespubchem:11279

Filing pathway

Shikimates and phenylpropanoids — 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
Glarea lozoyensis
NCBITaxon:101852
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0001275 PMID:15800788
Aspergillus terreus
NCBITaxon:33178
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0001276 PMID:9003280

Occurrences 25

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
Mutisia spinosa
NCBITaxon:130278
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)85512-0
Mycobacterium phlei
NCBITaxon:1771
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/BI00822A018
Neolentinus cyathiformis
NCBITaxon:182019
LOTUS DOI:10.3891/ACTA.CHEM.SCAND.20-0045
Streptomyces albidoflavus
NCBITaxon:1886
LOTUS DOI:10.1128/JB.177.15.4544-4548.1995
Streptomyces coelicolor
NCBITaxon:1902
LOTUS DOI:10.1128/JB.177.15.4544-4548.1995
Streptomyces viridochromogenes
NCBITaxon:1938
LOTUS DOI:10.1128/JB.177.15.4544-4548.1995
Geosmithia langdonii
NCBITaxon:240214
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/NP5000473
Penicillium vulpinum
NCBITaxon:29845
LOTUS DOI:10.3987/COM-98-8253
Tetramorium impurum
NCBITaxon:30205
LOTUS DOI:10.1007/BF00368520
Phoma
NCBITaxon:37463
LOTUS DOI:10.1021/NP50083A013
Leibnitzia anandria
NCBITaxon:41596
LOTUS DOI:10.3390/MOLECULES19044046
Leibnitzia anandria
NCBITaxon:41596
CHEBI PMID:24699147
Aspergillus flavipes
NCBITaxon:41900
LOTUS DOI:10.1186/2191-2858-2-9
Lasiodiplodia theobromae
NCBITaxon:45133
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/J.TET.2009.10.084
Penicillium griseofulvum
NCBITaxon:5078
LOTUS DOI:10.1039/C39840001005
Penicillium griseofulvum
NCBITaxon:5078
LOTUS DOI:10.1128/AEM.41.6.1407-1412.1981
Penicillium griseofulvum
NCBITaxon:5078
CHEBI PMID:16345795
Garcinia mangostana
NCBITaxon:58228
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/J.PHYTOL.2012.11.007
Penicillium solitum
NCBITaxon:60172
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/S0021-9673(01)89440-1
Aspergillus fumigatus
NCBITaxon:746128
LOTUS DOI:10.1042/BJ0970321
Epicoccum sorghinum
NCBITaxon:749593
LOTUS DOI:10.1080/00275514.1992.12026197
Epicoccum sorghinum
NCBITaxon:749593
LOTUS DOI:10.2307/3760381
Camponotus vagus
NCBITaxon:84551
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/0305-0491(87)90286-0
Glarea lozoyensis
NCBITaxon:101852
LOTUS DOI:10.1007/S00438-005-1132-Y
Aspergillus terreus
NCBITaxon:33178
LOTUS DOI:10.1007/S004380050289

Biosynthetic gene clusters 2

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0001275 Glarea lozoyensis
NCBITaxon:101852
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AY941322.1
mibig:BGC0001276 Aspergillus terreus
NCBITaxon:33178
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:D85860.2

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 2

name-disagreement — ChEBI calls this structure '6-methylsalicylic acid' and MIBiG calls it '6-methylsalicyclic acid'. They share a Standard InChIKey, so if the names denote different compounds then one upstream record has the wrong structure. Check which.

shared-structure — This structure is reported by more than one MIBiG entry: BGC0001275, BGC0001276. Confirm they describe the same compound rather than an upstream cross-reference error.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0001275MIBIG3
BGC0001276MIBIG3
CHEBI:17637CHEBI3-star

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