Beilstein J. Org. Chem.2013,9, 1768–1773, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.205
, dimethylfuran-2,4-dicarboxylate. The cryptic metabolite represents the first non-azinomycin related compound to be isolated and characterized from the soil bacterium, S. sahachiroi. The results from this study suggest that abolishing production of otherwise predominant natural products through genetic
knockout may constitute a means to “activate” the production of novel secondary metabolites that would otherwise lay dormant within microbial genome sequences.
Keywords: cryptic metabolite; dimethylfuran-2,4-dicarboxylate; genetic knockout; natural products; non-ribosomal peptide synthetase module
inactivation led to the abolishment of azinomycin production, confirming the involvement of aziA2 in the biosynthesis of the antitumor agent [11][13] and also led to overproduction of a compound, dimethylfuran-2,4-dicarboxylate. The metabolite represents one of many cryptic pathway metabolites from the S
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Figure 1:
Schematic diagram illustrating the phenotypic effects arising through deletion of the aziA2 gene.