A new benzophenone huanglongmycin (HLM) D (1) and two new monomeric xanthones huanglongmycin E (2) and F (3), together with four known aromatic polyketides aloesaponarin II (4) and the previously isolated huanglongmycin A-C (5-7) were obtained from cave-derived Streptomyces sp. CB09001. The structures of 1-3 were established based on 1D, 2D NMR and HRMS data. Compounds 1-7 may be biosynthesized by a type II huanglongmycin polyketide synthase based on gene inactivation of hlmG encoding KSɑ in hlm gene cluster and their plausible biosynthetic mechanism was proposed.
Keywords: Streptomyces; benzophenone; polyketide synthase; xanthone.