NaturalProductMech

phevalin

CHEBI:167320 EXACT SEEDED

A member of the class of pyrazinones that is pyrazin-2(1H)-one substituted by an isopropyl and benzyl groups at position 3 and 6, respectively. It is a natural product found in Staphylococcus aureus that inhibits calpain in a casein hydrolysis assay (IC50 = 1.3 μM), contributes to S. aureus infection in mice, and alters human keratinocyte gene expression.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyCZUORGWXUVRUMV-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILESCC(C)C1=NC=C(NC1=O)CC2=CC=CC=C2
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencespubchem:10376483

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 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
Staphylococcus aureus subsp. aureus str. JKD6008
NCBITaxon:546342
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0000308 PMID:23302043

Occurrences 5

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:23302043
Streptomyces
NCBITaxon:1883
LOTUS DOI:10.7164/ANTIBIOTICS.48.1165
Streptomyces griseus
NCBITaxon:1911
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/S0960-894X(01)00524-8
Streptomyces sp.
NCBITaxon:1931
CHEBI 10.7164/antibiotics.48.1165
Escherichia coli
NCBITaxon:562
CHEBI PMID:28111075

Biosynthetic gene clusters 1

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
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 1

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

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0000308MIBIG5
CHEBI:167320CHEBI3-star

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