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Mutasynthesis of Antibacterial Halogenated Actinomycin Analogues
Ziwei Yao1,2,3, Changli Sun1,3, Yuhui Xia4
1CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Marine Materia Medica, RNAM Center for Marine Microbiology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Through precursor-directed biosynthesis, feeding halogenated (F-, Cl-, Br-, I-) or methoxy-substituted 4-methyl-3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (4-MHA) analogues to the acnGHLM-deleted mutant strain of Streptomyces costaricanus SCSIO ZS0073 led to the production of ten new actinomycin analogues (4-13). Several of the actinomycin congeners displayed impressive antimicrobial activities, with MIC values spanning 0.06-64 μg/mL to clinically derived antibiotic resistant pathogens, including Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecium, and Candida albicans, with low cytotoxicity.
