N-methyl-bacillithiol, a new metabolite discovered in the Chlorobiaceae, indicates that bacillithiol and derivatives are widely phylogenetically distributed.
Jennifer Hiras, Sunil V. Sharma, Vidhyavathi Raman, Ryan A. J. Tinson, Miriam Arbach, Dominic F. Rodrigues, Javiera Norambuena, Chris J. Hamilton, Thomas E. Hanson
The paper identifies N-methyl-bacillithiol (N-Me-BSH) as a novel redox-responsive thiol in Chlorobaculum tepidum and shows its widespread distribution across multiple bacterial phyla.
bioRxiv · Aug 8, 2017 · PreprintMicrobiology