Molecules (Jun 2022)

Natural Products Produced in Culture by Biosynthetically Talented <i>Salinispora arenicola</i> Strains Isolated from Northeastern and South Pacific Marine Sediments

  • David E. Williams,
  • Kalindi D. Morgan,
  • Doralyn S. Dalisay,
  • Teatulohi Matainaho,
  • Elodie Perrachon,
  • Noemie Viller,
  • Maïlys Delcroix,
  • Jeanne Gauchot,
  • Haruka Niikura,
  • Brian O. Patrick,
  • Katherine S. Ryan,
  • Raymond J. Andersen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27113569
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 11
p. 3569

Abstract

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Laboratory cultures of two ‘biosynthetically talented’ bacterial strains harvested from tropical and temperate Pacific Ocean sediment habitats were examined for the production of new natural products. Cultures of the tropical Salinispora arenicola strain RJA3005, harvested from a PNG marine sediment, produced salinorcinol (3) and salinacetamide (4), which had previously been reported as products of engineered and mutated strains of Amycolatopsis mediterranei, but had not been found before as natural products. An S. arenicola strain RJA4486, harvested from marine sediment collected in the temperate ocean waters off British Columbia, produced the new aminoquinone polyketide salinisporamine (5). Natural products 3, 4, and 5 are putative shunt products of the widely distributed rifamycin biosynthetic pathway.

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