NaturalProductMech

pulcherriminic acid

CHEBI:71599 EXACT SEEDED

A pyrazine N-oxide that is pyrazine-1,4-dioxide substituted at positions 2 and 5 by hydroxy groups and at positions 3 and 6 by isobutyl groups. Formed by oxidative aromatisation of cyclo(L-leucyl-L-leucyl).

Structure

Standard InChIKeyWXWWNANFOZVVLD-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILESCC(C)CC1=C(O)N(=O)=C(CC(C)C)C(O)=N1=O
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencesnpatlas:NPA012181

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 other, 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
Metschnikowia aff. pulcherrima
NCBITaxon:2163413
BGC_CORRELATED mibig:BGC0002321 PMID:31081214
Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis str. 168
NCBITaxon:224308
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0002103 DOI:10.1038/s41522-023-00418-z

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
Metschnikowia pulcherrima
NCBITaxon:27326
LOTUS DOI:10.1139/V63-021
Caesalpinia pulcherrima
NCBITaxon:53846
LOTUS DOI:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)97708-2

Biosynthetic gene clusters 2

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0002321 Metschnikowia aff. pulcherrima
NCBITaxon:2163413
CLUSTER_CORRELATED genbank:CP034458.1
mibig:BGC0002103 Bacillus subtilis subsp. subtilis str. 168
NCBITaxon:224308
CLUSTER_DEMONSTRATED genbank:NC_000964.3

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.

Open questions 1

shared-structure — This structure is reported by more than one MIBiG entry: BGC0002103, BGC0002321. Confirm they describe the same compound rather than an upstream cross-reference error.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0002321MIBIG3
BGC0002103MIBIG2
CHEBI:71599CHEBI3-star

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