Novel natural products from soil DNA libraries in a streptomycete host

[GRAPHICS] As a route to accessing the potential chemical diversity of uncultivable mi crobes from the soil, combinatorial biosynthetic libraries were constructed by cloning large fragments of DNA isolated from soil into a Streptomyces l ividans host. Four novel compounds, terragines A (1), B (2), C (3), and D ( 4), were isolated from recombinant 436-s4-5b1, and another novel compound, terragine E (5), was isolated from 446-s3-102g1. The structures were determ ined by a combination of spectroscopic techniques, primarily 2D NMR.