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Record W4414288410 · doi:10.1021/acschembio.5c00346

Characterization of Variation in Natural Product Production Under Chemical Elicitation Using Parallel Stable Isotope Labeling

2025· article· en· W4414288410 on OpenAlexafffund
Liana Zaroubi, Bruno S. Paulo, Ethan Fung, Hannah Cavanagh, Robert Britton, Alessandra S. Eustáquio, Roger G. Linington

Bibliographic record

VenueACS Chemical Biology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMicrobial Natural Products and Biosynthesis
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
FundersNational Institute of General Medical SciencesNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsSecondary metaboliteSecondary metabolismMetaboliteMetabolomeMetabolomicsNatural productElicitorStable isotope ratioMetabolism

Abstract

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Most microorganisms produce far fewer secondary metabolites under laboratory culture conditions than would be expected based on the number of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) present in their genomes. One strategy for inducing secondary metabolite production is to add chemical elicitors that disrupt bacterial metabolism. This one-strain-many-compounds (OSMAC) strategy has been used successfully to discover a broad range of natural products. However, traditional strategies for detecting changes in natural product production are not well suited to characterizing variations in the full secondary metabolome under elicitation conditions. One efficient tool to differentiate metabolites between experiments is IsoAnalyst, a parallel stable isotope labeling method that connects secondary metabolites to BGCs by determining the rates of incorporation for a set of isotopically labeled secondary metabolism building blocks. In this study three strains of Paraburkholderia were profiled under a range of OSMAC conditions and changes in secondary metabolism characterized using a combination of analytical tools including IsoAnalyst. Using these profiles, we assessed the degree of novel secondary metabolite production under different elicitation conditions. Prioritization of one compound class strongly induced in the presence of the antibiotic rifaximin led to the discovery of 2-hydroxyacyl putrescine compounds putrescinamides A ( 1 ) and B ( 2 ). The structures of these new metabolites were determined through a combination of multidimensional NMR experiments and total synthesis, which permitted the determination of their full absolute configurations. Together these stable isotope labeling experiments provide a unique perspective on system-wide variation in de novo secondary metabolite biosynthesis under elicitor conditions and highlight the impact of elicitor selection on metabolite induction in Burkholderiales strains.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.440

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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