Intermediates and shunt products of massiliachelin biosynthesis in Massilia sp. NR 4-1

• Till Steinmetz,
• Blaise Kimbadi Lombe and
• Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 909–917, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.69

• order to scavenge iron from the environment. An example is the thiazoline-containing natural product massiliachelin, which is produced by Massilia sp. NR 4-1 under iron-deficient conditions. Based on experimental evidence and genome analysis, it was suspected that this bacterium synthesizes further iron

• biosynthetic intermediates or shunt products of massiliachelin. Their bioactivity was tested against one Gram-positive and three Gram-negative bacteria. Keywords: Massilia; massiliachelin; siderophore; structure elucidation; Introduction Iron is crucial for many important biological processes, such as

• Burkholderia gladioli, which possesses an unprecedented citrate-derived fatty acid moiety [11]. Furthermore, lipopeptide siderophores with photocleavable moieties, like taiwachelin, were reported from bacteria of the genera Cupriavidus and Variovorax [12][13][14]. The β-proteobacterial genus Massilia was

Genomics-inspired discovery of massiliachelin, an agrochelin epimer from Massilia sp. NR 4-1

• Jan Diettrich,
• Hirokazu Kage and
• Markus Nett

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1298–1303, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.128

• -producing bacterium Massilia sp. NR 4-1 and predicted to direct the biosynthesis of a molecule that is structurally related to the thiazoline-containing siderophore micacocidin. In order to track this compound, we analyzed the metabolic profiles of Massilia cultures grown under different iron concentrations

• product, which was named massiliachelin, corresponds to the assembly line encoded by the identified siderophore locus. Keywords: agrochelin; genome mining; Massilia; massiliachelin; siderophore; stereochemistry; Introduction In recent years, chemical investigations as well as genomics led to the

• ]. In this study, we analyzed the β-proteobacterium Massilia sp. NR 4-1, which had been isolated from a soil sample collected under a nutmeg tree [6]. Although, this strain had already been identified as producer of the antibiotic violacein [6], still not much is known about its secondary metabolism or