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Detoxification of Fusaric Acid by the Soil Microbe Mucor rouxii
Crutcher, Frankie K.,Puckhaber, Lorraine S.,Bell, Alois A.,Liu, Jinggao,Duke, Sara E.,Stipanovic, Robert D.,Nichols, Robert L.
, p. 4989 - 4992 (2017)
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum race 4 (VCG0114), which causes root rot and wilt of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum and G. barbadense), has been identified recently for the first time in the western hemisphere in certain fields in the San Joaquin Valley of California. This pathotype produces copious quantities of the plant toxin fusaric acid (5-butyl-2-pyridinecarboxylic acid) compared to other isolates of F. oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum (Fov) that are indigenous to the United States. Fusaric acid is toxic to cotton plants and may help the pathogen compete with other microbes in the soil. We found that a laboratory strain of the fungus Mucor rouxii converts fusaric acid into a newly identified compound, 8-hydroxyfusaric acid. The latter compound is significantly less phytotoxic to cotton than the parent compound. On the basis of bioassays of hydroxylated analogues of fusaric acid, hydroxylation of the butyl side chain of fusaric acid may affect a general detoxification of fusaric acid. Genes that control this hydroxylation may be useful in developing biocontrol agents to manage Fov.
Synthesis of substituted pyridines via regiocontrolled [4 + 2] cycloadditions of oximinosulfonates
Renslo, Adam R.,Danheiser, Rick L.
, p. 7840 - 7850 (2007/10/03)
Diels-Alder cycloadditions of oximinosulfonate 8 with a variety of 1, 3-dienes proceed with regiochemistry opposite to that observed with conventional imino dienophiles, providing expeditious synthetic routes to substituted pyridines, tetrahydropyridines, and pyrrolines. The oximinosulfonate 8 is prepared in one convenient synthetic operation from Meldrum's acid and reacts with conjugated dienes at -78 C in the presence of 2 equiv of dimethylaluminum chloride to afford [4 + 2] cycloadducts in good to excellent yield. Exposure of these cycloadducts to the action of NaOMe and JV-chlorosuccinimide in methanol-THF at room temperature then produces substituted pyridines. The utility of this new two-step annulation protocol is demonstrated in total syntheses of the pyridine alkaloids fusaric acid and (S)-(+)-fusarinolic acid. Heating the [4 + 2] cycloadducts derived from 8 in a mixture of acetonitrile and pH 7 phosphate buffer induces an unusual Stieglitztype rearrangement leading to the formation of interesting spirobicyclic pyrrolines.
