Recent Advances on Macrocyclic Trichothecenes, Their Bioactivities and Biosynthetic Pathway

Macrocyclic trichothecenes are an important group of trichothecenes bearing a large ring. Despite the fact that many of trichothecenes are of concern in agriculture, food contamination, health care and building protection, the macrocyclic ones are becoming the research hotspot because of their diver...

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Main Authors: Muzi Zhu, Youfei Cen, Wei Ye, Saini Li, Weimin Zhang
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Published: MDPI AG 2020-06-01
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Youfei Cen
Wei Ye
Saini Li
Weimin Zhang
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Wei Ye
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Weimin Zhang
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description Macrocyclic trichothecenes are an important group of trichothecenes bearing a large ring. Despite the fact that many of trichothecenes are of concern in agriculture, food contamination, health care and building protection, the macrocyclic ones are becoming the research hotspot because of their diversity in structure and biologic activity. Several researchers have declared that macrocyclic trichothecenes have great potential to be developed as antitumor agents, due to the plenty of their compounds and bioactivities. In this review we summarize the newly discovered macrocyclic trichothecenes and their bioactivities over the last decade, as well as identifications of genes <i>tri17</i> and <i>tri18</i> involved in the trichothecene biosynthesis and putative biosynthetic pathway. According to the search results in database and phylogenetic trees generated in the review, the species of the genera <i>Podostroma</i> and <i>Monosporascus</i> would probably be great sources for producing macrocyclic trichothecenes. Moreover, we propose that the macrocyclic trichothecene roridin E could be formed via acylation or esterification of the long side chain linked with C-4 to the hydroxyl group at C-15, and vice versa. More assays and evidences are needed to support this hypothesis, which would promote the verification of the proposed pathway.
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spelling doaj.art-f2eea0517d06451fa9f423695195f3572023-11-20T04:43:15ZengMDPI AGToxins2072-66512020-06-0112641710.3390/toxins12060417Recent Advances on Macrocyclic Trichothecenes, Their Bioactivities and Biosynthetic PathwayMuzi Zhu0Youfei Cen1Wei Ye2Saini Li3Weimin Zhang4Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, ChinaGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, ChinaGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, ChinaGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, ChinaGuangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Culture Collection and Application, State Key Laboratory of Applied Microbiology Southern China, Guangdong Institute of Microbiology, Guangdong Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510070, ChinaMacrocyclic trichothecenes are an important group of trichothecenes bearing a large ring. Despite the fact that many of trichothecenes are of concern in agriculture, food contamination, health care and building protection, the macrocyclic ones are becoming the research hotspot because of their diversity in structure and biologic activity. Several researchers have declared that macrocyclic trichothecenes have great potential to be developed as antitumor agents, due to the plenty of their compounds and bioactivities. In this review we summarize the newly discovered macrocyclic trichothecenes and their bioactivities over the last decade, as well as identifications of genes <i>tri17</i> and <i>tri18</i> involved in the trichothecene biosynthesis and putative biosynthetic pathway. According to the search results in database and phylogenetic trees generated in the review, the species of the genera <i>Podostroma</i> and <i>Monosporascus</i> would probably be great sources for producing macrocyclic trichothecenes. Moreover, we propose that the macrocyclic trichothecene roridin E could be formed via acylation or esterification of the long side chain linked with C-4 to the hydroxyl group at C-15, and vice versa. More assays and evidences are needed to support this hypothesis, which would promote the verification of the proposed pathway.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/12/6/417macrocyclic trichothecenesbioactivitiesputative biosynthetic pathwaymacrocycle formation
spellingShingle Muzi Zhu
Youfei Cen
Wei Ye
Saini Li
Weimin Zhang
Recent Advances on Macrocyclic Trichothecenes, Their Bioactivities and Biosynthetic Pathway
Toxins
macrocyclic trichothecenes
bioactivities
putative biosynthetic pathway
macrocycle formation
title Recent Advances on Macrocyclic Trichothecenes, Their Bioactivities and Biosynthetic Pathway
title_full Recent Advances on Macrocyclic Trichothecenes, Their Bioactivities and Biosynthetic Pathway
title_fullStr Recent Advances on Macrocyclic Trichothecenes, Their Bioactivities and Biosynthetic Pathway
title_full_unstemmed Recent Advances on Macrocyclic Trichothecenes, Their Bioactivities and Biosynthetic Pathway
title_short Recent Advances on Macrocyclic Trichothecenes, Their Bioactivities and Biosynthetic Pathway
title_sort recent advances on macrocyclic trichothecenes their bioactivities and biosynthetic pathway
topic macrocyclic trichothecenes
bioactivities
putative biosynthetic pathway
macrocycle formation
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/12/6/417
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