New Olimycins from a Cold-Seep-Derived Streptomyces olivaceus.

Cold-seeps are areas of the ocean floor in which hydrogen sulfide and methane are released into the open water. The cold-seep microbes are an emerging source of novel bioactive natural products. Four new ansa-ring opened linear ansamycin analogues, named olimycins E-H (1-4) were isolated from the cold-seep-derived Streptomyces olivaceus OUCLQ19-3. The planar and stereochemical structures of the isolated compounds were elucidated based on extensive MS and NMR spectroscopic analyses together with ECD calculations.