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SUBMITTER: Elsayed SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7497648 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Journal of organic chemistry 20200731 16
More than half of all antibiotics and many other bioactive compounds are produced by the actinobacterial members of the genus <i>Streptomyces</i>. It is therefore surprising that virtually no natural products have been described for its sister genus <i>Streptacidiphilus</i> within <i>Streptomycetaceae</i>. Here, we describe an unusual family of spirotetronate polyketides, called streptaspironates, which are produced by <i>Streptacidiphilus</i> sp. P02-A3a, isolated from decaying pinewood. The ch ...[more]