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aflatoxin B1

CHEBI:2504 EXACT SEEDED toxin

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

Structure

Standard InChIKeyOQIQSTLJSLGHID-WNWIJWBNSA-N
SMILESCOc1cc2c(c3oc(=O)c4c(c13)CCC4=O)[C@@H]1C=CO[C@@H]1O2
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencespubchem:186907, chembl:CHEMBL1697694

Filing pathway

Unclassified — 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 5

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:10.1094/phyto-79-808
Aspergillus flavus
NCBITaxon:5059
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000007 DOI:10.1007/s00253-002-1094-5
Aspergillus flavus
NCBITaxon:5059
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000008 DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0199169
Aspergillus nomius
NCBITaxon:41061
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000009 DOI:10.1007/bf00393843
Aspergillus ochraceoroseus
NCBITaxon:138278
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000011 DOI:10.1080/15572536.2006.11832818

Occurrences 6

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
Streptomyces roseolus
NCBITaxon:67358
LOTUS DOI:10.3390/TOXINS10110442
Glycyrrhiza uralensis
NCBITaxon:74613
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/J.FOODCONT.2012.11.028
Homo sapiens
NCBITaxon:9606
CHEBI 10.1038/nbt.2488
Homo sapiens
NCBITaxon:9606
LOTUS DOI:10.1007/S11306-016-1051-4
Homo sapiens
NCBITaxon:9606
LOTUS DOI:10.1038/NBT.2488
Aspergillus flavus
NCBITaxon:5059
LOTUS DOI:10.1007/S10600-009-9433-8

Biosynthetic gene clusters 5

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0000006 Aspergillus flavus
NCBITaxon:5059
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AY510451.1
mibig:BGC0000007 Aspergillus flavus
NCBITaxon:5059
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AY510452.1
mibig:BGC0000008 Aspergillus flavus
NCBITaxon:5059
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AY510453.1
mibig:BGC0000009 Aspergillus nomius
NCBITaxon:41061
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:AY510454.1
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 5

AssayResultReference
Assay of Substrate Hydrolysis from Article 10.1021/bi401043w: "The natural product dihydrotanshinone I provides a prototype for uncharged inhibitors that bind specifically to the acetylcholinesterase peripheral site with nanomolar affinity."KI 28 uMPMID:24040835
Bacterial reverse mutation test (aka Ames test) summary dataACTIVEpubchem.aid:2202554
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, BGC0000007, BGC0000008, BGC0000009, BGC0000011. Confirm they describe the same compound rather than an upstream cross-reference error.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0000006MIBIG3
BGC0000007MIBIG3
BGC0000008MIBIG3
BGC0000009MIBIG3
BGC0000011MIBIG3
CHEBI:2504CHEBI3-star

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