title: Studies of the biosynthesis of DTX-5a and DTX-5b by the dinoflagellate Prorocentrum maculosum: regiospecificity of the putative Baeyer-Villigerase and insertion of a single amino acid in a polyketide chain.
abstract: The biosynthetic origins of the diarrhetic shellfish poisoning toxins DTX-5a and DTX-5b have been elucidated by supplementing cultures of the producing organism Prorocentrum maculosum with stable isotope labeled precursors and determining the incorporation patterns by 13C NMR spectroscopy. The amino acid residue in the sulfated side chain is found to originate from glycine, and oxygen insertion in the chain is shown to occur after polyketide formation.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Marine Biosciences, National Research Council of Canada, 1411 Oxford Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3Z1.
authors.forename: Gordon R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Macpherson
authors.forename: Ian W
authors.initials: IW
authors.lastname: Burton
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: LeBlanc
authors.forename: John A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Walter
authors.forename: Jeffrey L C
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D000818:Animals; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D002384:Catalysis; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D004141:Dinoflagellida / Q000737:chemistry*; D005998:Glycine / Q000737:chemistry; D008387:Marine Toxins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D015394:Molecular Structure; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D019319:Okadaic Acid / Q000737:chemistry / Q000031:analogs & derivatives
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D008387:Marine Toxins; C114941:dinophysistoxin 5; C114940:dinophysistoxin 4; D019319:Okadaic Acid; D005998:Glycine