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. 2018 Oct 25;8(6):e00742. doi: 10.1002/mbo3.742

Table 7.

Overview of the biosynthetic compounds predicted in the NWUMFkBS10.5 genome

Biosynthetic compound Cluster located Biomedical/Biocontrol function Reference
Mycosubtilin 6 Antifungal, hemolytic, and limited antibacterial activity Duitman et al. (2007), Leclère et al. (2005)
Fengycin and Plipastatin 6 Broad‐spectrum antifungal and antitumoral agent Cochrane and Vederas (2016), Vanittanakom, Loeffler, Koch, and Jung (1986)
Surfactin 13 Antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antimycoplasma, antitumoral, insecticidal, anticoagulant activities, and enzyme inhibitors Mnif and Ghribi (2015), Ongena and Jacques (2008)
Iturin 6 Antibacterial and antifungal activity Dunlap et al. (2013), Ongena and Jacques (2008)
Polymyxin 6 Antibacterial, antifungal, and Immuno‐modulating activity Cochrane et al. (2016)
Sessilin 10 Antifungal activity D’Aes et al. (2011), Olorunleke, Hua, Kieu, Ma, and Höfte (2015)
Bananamides 10 Unspecified Nguyen et al. (2016)
Cichopeptin 10 Limited information Huang et al. (2015)
Viscosin 10 Biosurfactant Alsohim et al. (2014), Bonnichsen et al. (2015)
Taiwachelin, tolaasinand, orfamide 10 Iron chelation, therapeutic peptide, insecticidal biosurfactant, and elicitor of induced systemic resistance Andolfi, Cimmino, Cantore, Iacobellis, and Evidente (2008), Jang et al. (2013), Kreutzer, Kage, and Nett (2012), Ma, Ongena, and Höfte (2017)
Mersacidin 16 Antibacterial Abriouel, Franz, Ben Omar, and Gálvez (2011)
Bacitracin and bacilysin 15 Limited use as animal growth promoter, topical antibiotic, antibacterial, and antifungal Mousa and Raizada (2015), Phillips (1999)
Bacillibactin, paenibactin, griseobactin, heterobactin, mirubactin, myxochelin, vanchrobactin 14 Iron chelation and anticancer agent Balado, Osorio, and Lemos (2008), Giessen et al. (2012), Patzer and Braun (2010), Sandy et al. (2010), Wen et al. (2011)
Amylocyclicin 1 Antibacterial and plant growth promoter Scholz et al. (2014)
Lichenysin 13 Biosurfactant Grangemard, Bonmatin, Bernillon, Das, and Peypoux (1999)
Basiliskamides 13 Antifungal Theodore et al. (2014)
Difficidin 11, 7, 4 Broad‐spectrum antibacterial compound Chen et al. (2009), Mousa and Raizada (2015)
Kalimantacin/batumin and oocydin A 11, 7, 5 Antibacterial and antifungal haterumalide Matilla, Leeper, and Salmond (2015), Mattheus et al. (2010), Tokunaga et al., (1996)
Sorangicin 11, 7 Antibacterial macrolide antibiotic Campbell et al. (2005)
Elansolid 7 Antibiotic (Bactericidal) Steinmetz et al. (2011)
Myxovirescin 7, 5 Antibiotic (Bactericidal) Xiao, Gerth, Müller, and Wall (2012)
Phormidolide, thiomarinol, and mupirocin 5 Antitumor agent and antibacterial metabolite/clinical antibiotic Mousa and Raizada (2015), Murphy et al. (2014)
Paenilarvins, tridecaptin, and paenibacterin 6 Antifungal, antitumor agent, and antibiotic (Bactericidal) Cochrane et al. (2016), Hertlein et al. (2016), Huang, Guo, and Yousef (2014), Huang and Yousef (2014)