posted on 2024-03-22, 18:07authored bySarani Kankanamge, Zeinab G. Khalil, Robert J. Capon
Investigation
of the secondary metabolites of Streptomyces
virginiae CMB-CA091 isolated from the quartz-rich (tepui)
soil of a cave in Venezuela yielded two new dimeric phenazine glycosides,
tepuazines A and B (1 and 2); three new
monomeric phenazine glycosides, tepuazines C–E (3–5); and a series of known analogues, baraphenazine
G (6), phenazinolin D (7), izumiphenazine
C (8), 4-methylaminobenzoyl-l-rhamnopyranoside
(9), and 2-acetamidophenol (10). Structures
were assigned to 1–10 on the basis
of detailed spectroscopic analysis and biosynthetic considerations,
with 1 and 2 featuring a rare 2-oxabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane-like
ring C/D bridge shared with only a handful of known Streptomyces natural products. We propose a plausible convergent biosynthetic
relationship linking all known members of this structure class that
provides a rationale for the observed ring C/D configuration.