Pironetin biosynthesis

The structure of pironetin was determined to be (5/ ,6/ )-5-ethyl-5,6-dihydro-6[(jE )-(2/ ,35,4/ ,55)-2-hydroxy-4-methoxy-3,5-dimethyl-7-nonenyl]-2H-pyran-2-one by FAB-MS, H and 13C NMR, COSY, COLOC, DEPT, IR, X-ray crystallographic analyses and adapted Mosher s method to determined the absolute configuration [74]. The biosynthesis of pironetin appeared to involve assembly of acetate, propionate and butyrate precursors. Four fermentation experiments were carried out in order to determine the biosynthetic origin of the carbon skeleton and oxygen atoms of pironetin. [1-13C] Acetate, [2-13C]acetate, [1,2-13C] acetate, [l-13C]propionate, [l-1 C]butyrate and L-[methyl-I3C]methionine were led separately to Streptomyces sp. culture and pironetin was isolated and purified. Analysis of pironetin by 13C NMR showed that pironetin was derived from four acetate units, two propionate units, one butyrate unit and one methyl unit of methionine [78] (Fig. 4). 

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