Filipins: The first antifungal "weed killers" identified from bacteria isolated from the trap-ant

H. Gao; S. Grüschow; J. Barke; R.F. Seipke; L.M. Hill; J. Orivel; D.W. Yu; M. Hutchings; R.J.M. Goss

doi:10.1039/c4ra09875g

Filipins: The first antifungal "weed killers" identified from bacteria isolated from the trap-ant

H. Gao, S. Grüschow, J. Barke, R.F. Seipke, L.M. Hill, J. Orivel, D.W. Yu, M. Hutchings, R.J.M. Goss

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Allomerus ants ensure that they have sufficient nitrogen in their diet by trapping and consuming other insects. In order to construct their traps, like the more extensively studied leaf cutter ants, they employ fungal farming. Pest management within these fungal cultures has been speculated to be due to the ants' usage of actinomycetes capable of producing antifungal compounds, analogous to the leafcutter ant mutualism. Here we report the first identification of a series of antifungal compounds, the filipins, and their associated biosynthetic genes isolated from a bacterium associated with this system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	57267-57270
Number of pages	4
Journal	RSC Advances
Volume	4
Issue number	100
Early online date	27 Oct 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c4ra09875g
Publication status	Published - 2014

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