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JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
Volume 75, Issue 10, Pages 1765-1776Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/np300468h
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG [DI1536/1-2]
- Beilstein-Institut zur Forderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften
- DFG [DI1536/2-1]
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Volatile compounds released by 50 bacterial strains, 45 of them actinobacteria in addition to three chloroflexi and two myxobacteria, have been collected by use of a closed-loop stripping apparatus, and the obtained headspace extracts have been analyzed by GC-MS. Excluding terpenes that have recently been published elsewhere, 254 compounds from all kinds of compound classes have been identified. For unambiguous compound identification several reference compounds have been synthesized. Among the detected volatiles 12 new natural products have been found, in addition to mellein, which was released by Saccharopolyspora erythraea. The iterative PKS for this compound has recently been identified by in vitro experiments, but mellein production in S. erythraea has never been reported before. These examples demonstrate that headspace analysis is an important tool for the discovery of natural products that may be overlooked using conventional techniques. The method is alos useful for feeding experiments with isotopically labeled precursors and was applied to investigate the biosynthesis of the unusual nitrogen compound 1-nitro-2-methylpropane, which arises from valine. Furthermore, several streptomycetes emitted compounds that were previously recognized as insect pheromones, thus questioning if bacterial symbionts are involved in insect communication.
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