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Jia-Xuan Yan1, Qihao Wu1, Eric J N Helfrich2
1Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 777 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53705, USA.
Abstract:
Chemical investigations of a marine sponge-associated Bacillus revealed six new imidazolium-containing compounds, bacillimidazoles A-F (1-6). Previous reports of related imidazolium-containing natural products are rare. Initially unveiled by timsTOF (trapped ion mobility spectrometry) MS data, extensive HRMS and 1D and 2D NMR analyses enabled the structural elucidation of 1-6. In addition, a plausible biosynthetic pathway to bacillimidazoles is proposed based on isotopic labeling experiments and invokes the highly reactive glycolytic adduct 2,3-butanedione. Combined, the results of structure elucidation efforts, isotopic labeling studies and bioinformatics suggest that 1-6 result from a fascinating intersection of primary and secondary metabolic pathways in Bacillus sp. WMMC1349. Antimicrobial assays revealed that, of 1-6, only compound six displayed discernible antibacterial activity, despite the close structural similarities shared by all six natural products.
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