NaturalProductMech

leuvalin

CHEBI:167321 EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of pyrazinones that is pyrazin-2(1H)-one substituted by isopropyl and isobutyl groups at positions 3 and 6, respectively. It is a natural product found in Staphylococcus aureus.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyWLZSJRZITZLEPW-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILESCC(C)CC1=CN=C(C(=O)N1)C(C)C
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencespubchem:121434429

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 nrps, 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
Streptococcus mutans
NCBITaxon:1309
BGC_CHARACTERIZED mibig:BGC0002287 PMID:31413323
Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus str. JKD6008
NCBITaxon:546342
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000308 PMID:23302043

Occurrences 1

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
Staphylococcus aureus
NCBITaxon:1280
CHEBI PMID:20851341

Biosynthetic gene clusters 2

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0002287 Streptococcus mutans
NCBITaxon:1309
CLUSTER_DEMONSTRATED genbank:MK144293.1
mibig:BGC0000308 Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus str. JKD6008
NCBITaxon:546342
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:CP002120.1

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 2

name-disagreement — ChEBI calls this structure 'leuvalin' and MIBiG calls it 'aureusimine C'. 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: BGC0000308, BGC0002287. Confirm they describe the same compound rather than an upstream cross-reference error.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0002287MIBIG2
BGC0000308MIBIG5
CHEBI:167321CHEBI3-star

This page is generated from data/natural_products/unclassified/leuvalin.yaml, which is generated from the committed inventories. Neither is edited by hand.