Three new O-isocrotonyl-3-hydroxybutyric acid congeners produced by a sea anemone-derived marine bacterium of the genus Vibrio

• Dandan Li,
• Enjuro Harunari,
• Tao Zhou,
• Naoya Oku and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 1869–1874, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.154

• of the sea anemone Radianthus crispus, was found to produce three new O-isocrotonyl-3-hydroxybutyric acid derivatives, O-isocrotonyl-3-hydroxypentanoic acid (1), O-isocrotonyl-3-hydroxyhexanoic acid (2), and O-(Z)-2-hexenoyl-3-hydroxybutyric acid (3), together with the known O-isocrotonyl-3

• . Keywords: 3-hydroxybutyric acid; polyhydroxyalkanoate; sea anemone; Tenacibaculum maritimum; Vibrio; Introduction The genus Vibrio, within the class Gammaproteobacteria, are a group of Gram-negative, halophilic, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria, which are motile with sheathed polar flagella [1

• bacteria, Vibrio sp. SI9, isolated from the sea anemone Radianthus crispus, was found to produce a known ester 4 and its new congeners 1–3 (Figure 1). Compound 4 is the shortest among the five oligomers of O-isocrotonyl-oligo(3-hydroxybutyrate) (5) previously discovered from Vibrio [9]. In this study, we

Isolation and biosynthesis of an unsaturated fatty acid with unusual methylation pattern from a coral-associated bacterium Microbulbifer sp.

• Amit Raj Sharma,
• Enjuro Harunari,
• Tao Zhou,
• Agus Trianto and
• Yasuhiro Igarashi

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2327–2332, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.225

• but are widely produced by many fungi and are thought to play an important role in the interaction between fungi and their host organisms. C9-Methylated sphingolipids are also found from some marine invertebrates such as sea anemone and starfish although their biological function is still unclear in