NaturalProductMech

rhabduscin

CHEBI:140651 EXACT SEEDED

An isocyanide that is the 4-acetamido-4,6-dideoxy-β-L-galactopyranoside of p-[(E)-2-isocyanovinyl]phenol. Produced by the gram-negative insect pathogens, Xenorhabdus nematophila and Photorhabdus luminescens, it is a potent nanomolar-level inhibitor of phenoloxidase, a key component of the insect's innate immune system.

Structure

Standard InChIKeyWQBVZBBQNNMLLX-YFFNFLMJSA-N
SMILESC[C@H]1[C@H]([C@H]([C@@H]([C@H](O1)OC2=CC=C(C=C2)/C=C/[N+]#[C-])O)O)NC(=O)C
Stereochemistryfully defined
Cross-referencespubchem:102453304

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 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
Xenorhabdus nematophila ATCC 19061
NCBITaxon:406817
SOURCE_ASSERTION mibig:BGC0001757 PMID:20022247

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
Photorhabdus luminescens
NCBITaxon:29488
CHEBI PMID:22711807
Xenorhabdus nematophila
NCBITaxon:628
CHEBI PMID:22711807

Biosynthetic gene clusters 1

AccessionHostLocus evidenceGenome
mibig:BGC0001757 Xenorhabdus nematophila ATCC 19061
NCBITaxon:406817
CLUSTER_UNSTATED genbank:FN667742.1

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.

Provenance

Source conceptSourceVersion
BGC0001757MIBIG3
CHEBI:140651CHEBI3-star

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