Starting from epothilone A±D (1a±2b) obtained by large scale fermentation of the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum the thiazole side-chain was extensively modi®ed by substitution, oxidation and replacement. Metallation afforded the C-19 carbanion 4 which was quenched by various carbon and heteroatom electrophiles to give C-19 substituted epothilones 5. Thiazole N-oxides 9 were obtained by trea...

The end of 2007 brought us draft genome sequences of two eukaryotic microorganisms, Babesia bovis and Malassezia globosa, as well as complete genomes of the ammonia-oxidizing archaeal chemoautotroph Nitrosopumilus maritimus, and several environmental bacteria (Table 1). In terms of genome size, this list covers both sides of the spectrum: the 245 kb genome of an obligate insect symbiont Sulcia ...

Stigmatella aurantiaca displays a complex developmental life cycle in response to starvation conditions that results in the formation of tree-like fruiting bodies capable of producing spores. The phage Mx8, first isolated from the close relative Myxococcus xanthus, is unable to infect S. aurantiaca cells and integrate into the genome. However, plasmids containing Mx8 fragments encoding the inte...

An antifungal activity was detected in the culture broth of the myxobacterium, Sorangium cellulosum strain So ce 307. The activity was excreted into the supernatant during the log and early stationary phase. When the organism was fermented in the presence of the adsorber resin XAD-16, the metabolite was quantitatively bound to the resin. The main component, jerangolid A, has structural similari...

The antibiotic stigmatellin was purified from the gliding bacterium Stigmatella aurantiaca [1] and its inhibition of the mitochondrial cytochrome bcl-com plex was characterized in detail [2—4]. Stigmatellin was found to affect the mitochondrial cytochrome bc7-complex at the ubiquinol oxidation site (Q nsite), shifting the a-peak of cytochrome b to the red and raising the redox potential of the ...