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Williams K, Szwalbe AJ, de Mattos-Shipley KMJ, Bailey AM, Cox RJ, Willis CL. Maleidride biosynthesis - construction of dimeric anhydrides - more than just heads or tails. Nat Prod Rep 2023; 40:128-157. [PMID: 36129067 PMCID: PMC9890510 DOI: 10.1039/d2np00041e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Covering: up to early 2022Maleidrides are a family of polyketide-based dimeric natural products isolated from fungi. Many maleidrides possess significant bioactivities, making them attractive pharmaceutical or agrochemical lead compounds. Their unusual biosynthetic pathways have fascinated scientists for decades, with recent advances in our bioinformatic and enzymatic understanding providing further insights into their construction. However, many intriguing questions remain, including exactly how the enzymatic dimerisation, which creates the diverse core structure of the maleidrides, is controlled. This review will explore the literature from the initial isolation of maleidride compounds in the 1930s, through the first full structural elucidation in the 1960s, to the most recent in vivo, in vitro, and in silico analyses.
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- Katherine Williams
- School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Bristol, 24 Tyndall Ave, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK.
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- School of Biological Sciences, Life Sciences Building, University of Bristol24 Tyndall AveBristol BS8 1TQUK
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and BMWZ, Leibniz University of HannoverSchneiderberg 3830167HannoverGermany
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AbstractAscomycetes belonging to the order Sordariales are a well-known reservoir of secondary metabolites with potential beneficial applications. Species of the Sordariales are ubiquitous, and they are commonly found in soils and in lignicolous, herbicolous, and coprophilous habitats. Some of their species have been used as model organisms in modern fungal biology or were found to be prolific producers of potentially useful secondary metabolites. However, the majority of sordarialean species are poorly studied. Traditionally, the classification of the Sordariales has been mainly based on morphology of the ascomata, ascospores, and asexual states, characters that have been demonstrated to be homoplastic by modern taxonomic studies based on multi-locus phylogeny. Herein, we summarize for the first time relevant information about the available knowledge on the secondary metabolites and the biological activities exerted by representatives of this fungal order, as well as a current outlook of the potential opportunities that the recent advances in omic tools could bring for the discovery of secondary metabolites in this order.
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de Mattos-Shipley KMJ, Spencer CE, Greco C, Heard DM, O'Flynn DE, Dao TT, Song Z, Mulholland NP, Vincent JL, Simpson TJ, Cox RJ, Bailey AM, Willis CL. Uncovering biosynthetic relationships between antifungal nonadrides and octadrides. Chem Sci 2020; 11:11570-11578. [PMID: 34094403 PMCID: PMC8162798 DOI: 10.1039/d0sc04309e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2020] [Accepted: 09/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Maleidrides are a class of bioactive secondary metabolites unique to filamentous fungi, which contain one or more maleic anhydrides fused to a 7-, 8- or 9- membered carbocycle (named heptadrides, octadrides and nonadrides respectively). Herein structural and biosynthetic studies on the antifungal octadride, zopfiellin, and nonadrides scytalidin, deoxyscytalidin and castaneiolide are described. A combination of genome sequencing, bioinformatic analyses, gene disruptions, biotransformations, isotopic feeding studies, NMR and X-ray crystallography revealed that they share a common biosynthetic pathway, diverging only after the nonadride deoxyscytalidin. 5-Hydroxylation of deoxyscytalidin occurs prior to ring contraction in the zopfiellin pathway of Diffractella curvata. In Scytalidium album, 6-hydroxylation - confirmed as being catalysed by the α-ketoglutarate dependent oxidoreductase ScyL2 - converts deoxyscytalidin to scytalidin, in the final step in the scytalidin pathway. Feeding scytalidin to a zopfiellin PKS knockout strain led to the production of the nonadride castaneiolide and two novel ring-open maleidrides.
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- Kate M J de Mattos-Shipley
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol Cantock's Close Bristol BS8 1TS UK
- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol 24 Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TQ UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol Cantock's Close Bristol BS8 1TS UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol Cantock's Close Bristol BS8 1TS UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol Cantock's Close Bristol BS8 1TS UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol Cantock's Close Bristol BS8 1TS UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol Cantock's Close Bristol BS8 1TS UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol Cantock's Close Bristol BS8 1TS UK
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- Syngenta, Jealott's Hill International Research Centre Bracknell RG42 6EY UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol Cantock's Close Bristol BS8 1TS UK
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- Institute for Organic Chemistry and BMWZ, Leibniz University of Hannover Schneiderberg 38 30167 Hannover Germany
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol 24 Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TQ UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol Cantock's Close Bristol BS8 1TS UK
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Bahadoor A, Brauer EK, Bosnich W, Schneiderman D, Johnston A, Aubin Y, Blackwell B, Melanson JE, Harris LJ. Gramillin A and B: Cyclic Lipopeptides Identified as the Nonribosomal Biosynthetic Products of Fusarium graminearum. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:16783-16791. [PMID: 30395461 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b10017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The virulence and broad host range of Fusarium graminearum is associated with its ability to secrete an arsenal of phytotoxic secondary metabolites, including the regulated mycotoxins belonging to the deoxynivalenol family. The TRI genes responsible for the biosynthesis of deoxynivalenol and related compounds are usually expressed during fungal infection. However, the F. graminearum genome harbors an array of unexplored biosynthetic gene clusters that are also co-induced with the TRI genes, including the nonribosomal peptide synthetase 8 ( NRPS8) gene cluster. Here, we identify two bicyclic lipopeptides, gramillin A (1) and B (2), as the biosynthetic end products of NRPS8. Structural elucidation by high-resolution LC-MS and NMR, including 1H-15N-13C HNCO and HNCA on isotopically enriched compounds, revealed that the gramillins possess a fused bicyclic structure with ring closure of the main peptide macrocycle occurring via an anhydride bond. Through targeted gene disruption, we characterized the GRA1 biosynthetic gene and its transcription factor GRA2 in the NRPS8 gene cluster. Further, we show that the gramillins are produced in planta on maize silks, promoting fungal virulence on maize but have no discernible effect on wheat head infection. Leaf infiltration of the gramillins induces cell death in maize, but not in wheat. Our results show that F. graminearum deploys the gramillins as a virulence agent in maize, but not in wheat, thus displaying host-specific adaptation.
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- Adilah Bahadoor
- Metrology , National Research Council Canada , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0R6 , Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0C6 , Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0C6 , Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0C6 , Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0C6 , Canada
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- Centre for Biologics Evaluation, Biologics, and Genetic Therapies Directorate , Health Canada , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0K9 , Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0C6 , Canada
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- Metrology , National Research Council Canada , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0R6 , Canada
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- Ottawa Research and Development Centre , Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , Ottawa , Ontario K1A 0C6 , Canada
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Musso L, Dallavalle S, Farina G, Burrone E. Natural products as sources of new fungicides: synthesis and antifungal activity of zopfiellin analogues. Chem Biol Drug Des 2012; 79:780-9. [PMID: 22284723 DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0285.2012.01343.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The synthesis of a series of cyclooctadiene anhydrides, analogues of the natural compound zopfiellin, was performed to assay their in vitro and in vivo antifungal activity on a set of plant pathogenic fungi. Most of the synthesized compounds possessed a broad spectrum of activity. In particular, the anhydrides 2 and 5a were very effective against the Oomycete diseases such as Phytophthora infestans and Pythium ultimum, reaching a level of activity well comparable with that of commercial fungicides in use. Preliminary in vivo evaluation of their protectant activity is also reported.
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- Loana Musso
- Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari Agroalimentari, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 2, Milan, Italy.
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Chen X, Zhu X, Ding Y, Shen Y. Antifungal activity of tautomycin and related compounds against Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 2011; 64:563-9. [DOI: 10.1038/ja.2011.55] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Wedge DE, Tabanca N, Sampson BJ, Werle C, Demirci B, Baser KHC, Nan P, Duan J, Liu Z. Antifungal and Insecticidal Activity of two Juniperus Essential Oils. Nat Prod Commun 2009. [DOI: 10.1177/1934578x0900400127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Essential oils of two Tibetan Junipers Juniperus saltuaria and J. squamata var. fargesii (Cupressaceae) were obtained by distilling dried leaves and branches using a Clevenger apparatus. Sixty-seven compounds from J. saltuaria and 58 from J. squamata var. fargesii were identified by gas chromatography—mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Both essential oils contained similar ratios of four abundant monoterpenoids: 44 and 35% sabinene, 13 and 9% elemol, 8 and 7% terpinen-4-ol, and 4 and 17% α-pinene, respectively. These oils had antifungal activity based on a direct bioautography assay of Colletotrichum acutatum, C. fragariae, and C. gloeosporioides, and insecticidal activity based on serial-time mortality bioassay of azalea lace bugs, Stephanitis pyrioides. Antifungal activity of Juniperus oils was weak when compared with commercial fungicides such as benomyl and captan. Whole Juniperus oils at quarter the dosage used against Colletotrichum species were more insecticidal than 10 mg/mL malathion, killing ≥70 - 90% adult lace bugs after 4 hours of exposure. Rf values of 0.18 for J. saltuaria oil and 0.19 for J. squamata oil indicated lipophilic monoterpenes which were the putative sources of biological activity.
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- David E. Wedge
- USDA-ARS-NPURU, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
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- USDA-ARS-NPURU, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
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- USDA-ARS Southern Horticultural Laboratory, 810 Hwy 26 W, Poplarville, MS, 39470, USA
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- USDA-ARS Southern Horticultural Laboratory, 810 Hwy 26 W, Poplarville, MS, 39470, USA
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Anadolu University, 26470, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Anadolu University, 26470, Eskisehir, Turkey
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- School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China
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- School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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Chen X, Zheng Y, Shen Y. Natural Products with Maleic Anhydride Structure: Nonadrides, Tautomycin, Chaetomellic Anhydride, and Other Compounds. Chem Rev 2007; 107:1777-830. [PMID: 17439289 DOI: 10.1021/cr050029r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Xiaolong Chen
- Institute of Bioengineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, P. R. China
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Tabanca N, Demirci B, Baser KHC, Aytac Z, Ekici M, Khan SI, Jacob MR, Wedge DE. Chemical composition and antifungal activity of Salvia macrochlamys and Salvia recognita essential oils. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2006; 54:6593-7. [PMID: 16939314 DOI: 10.1021/jf0608773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Essential oils of Salvia macrochlamys and Salvia recognita were obtained by hydrodistillation of dried aerial parts and characterized by gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. One hundred and twenty identified constituents representing 97.7% in S. macrochlamys and 96.4% in S. recognita were characterized, and 1,8-cineole, borneol, and camphor were identified as major components of the essential oils. The oils were evaluated for their antimalarial, antimicrobial, and antifungal activities. Antifungal activity of the essential oils from both Salvia species was nonselective at inhibiting growth and development of reproductive stroma of the plant pathogens Colletotrichum acutatum, Colletotrichum fragariae, and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. S. macrochlamys oil had good antimycobacterial activity against Mycobacterium intracellulare; however, the oils showed no antimicrobial activity against human pathogenic bacteria or fungi up to a concentration of 200 microg/mL. S. recognita oil exhibited a weak antimalarial activity against Plasmodium falciparum.
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- Nurhayat Tabanca
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS, NPUPU, The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA
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