Pasteurin
Pasteurin is a fictional natural product commonly used in textbooks and problem sets to illustrate principles of natural product biosynthesis, structure–activity relationships, and pharmacology. The term is not associated with a validated compound in chemical databases, and there are no experimental data describing its isolation or properties outside hypothetical scenarios.
In typical educational depictions, pasteurin is described as a lipophilic secondary metabolite produced by a hypothetical
Biosynthesis is usually shown as being guided by a modular polyketide synthase (PKS) gene cluster, with downstream
Educational relevance includes demonstrations of gene cluster engineering, heterologous expression, and structure–activity relationships. It also serves
See also: polyketide synthases, natural product biosynthesis, educational resources.