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Discovery, biosynthesis and antifungal mechanism of the polyene-polyol meijiemycin

2019; Royal Society of Chemistry; Volume: 56; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1039/c9cc08908j

ISSN

1364-548X

Autores

Zhen Jie Low, Juan Xiong, Ying Xie, Guang‐Lei Ma, Howard Saw, Hòa Thị Trần, Soo Lin Wong, Li Pang, July Fong, Peng Lu, Jin‐Feng Hu, Liang Yang, Yansong Miao, Zhao‐Xun Liang,

Tópico(s)

Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls

Resumo

Produced by a newly isolated Streptomycetes strain, meijiemycin is a gigantic linear polyene-polyol that exhibits structural features not seen in other members of the polyene-polyol family. We propose a biosynthetic mechanism and demonstrate that meijiemycin inhibits hyphal growth by inducing the aggregation of ergosterol and restructuring of the fungal plasma membrane.

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