Geministatin A
Application Notes
Geministatin A is a recently described depside antibiotic isolated from the fungus Austroacremonium gemini recovered from rotting wood in the wet tropics of northern Australia by Piggott, Chooi and collaborators, Australia in 2025. Geminstatin A is an analogue of aquastatin A with Δ15,16 and Δ18,19 double bonds which confer superior bioactivity. Geministatin A exhibits strong activity against B. subtilis and S. aureus antibiotic-susceptible and resistant strains with no significant mammalian cytotoxicity.
References
- Geministatins: new depside antibiotics from the fungus Austroacremonium gemini. Crombie A. et al. J. Antibiot. 2024, 77, 639.
- The aquastatin biosynthetic gene cluster encodes a versatile polyketide synthase capable of synthesising heteromeric depsides with diverse alkyl side chains. Sbaraini N. et al. Chem. Sci. 2024, 15,18872.



