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SUBMITTER: Cho JY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2596804 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cho Ji Young JY Kwon Hak Cheol HC Williams Philip G PG Jensen Paul R PR Fenical William W
Organic letters 20060601 12
A novel meroterpenoid, azamerone, was isolated from the saline culture of a new marine-derived bacterium related to the genus Streptomyces. Azamerone is composed of an unprecedented chloropyranophthalazinone core with a 3-chloro-6-hydroxy-2,2,6-trimethylcyclohexylmethyl side chain. The structure was rigorously determined by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. A possible biosynthetic origin of this unusual ring system is proposed. [structure: see text] ...[more]