Presently identified Photorhabdus secondary metabolites (SM) and their biological activity_
| SM | Activity | Target organism | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthraquinone and its derivatives | 1,3,8-trihydroxy-9, 10-anthraquinone | Insecticidal | Culex pipiens | Brachmann et al. (2007), Ahn et al. (2013) |
| 1,8-dihydroxy-3-methoxy-9, 10-anthraquinonea | Weak antibiotic activity | Li et al. (1995), Hu et al. (1998), Richardson et al. (1988), Challinor and Bode (2015) | ||
| 3-methoxychrysazine | Insecticidal | C. pipiens | Ahn et al. (2003) | |
| Benzaldehydea | Antimycotic | Phytophthora capsici, Rhizoctonia solani, and Corynespora cassiicola | Ullah et al. (2015) | |
| Insecticidal | Galleria mellonella | |||
| Carbapenem | 1-carbapen-2-em-3-carboxylic acid | Antibiotic | Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Enterobacter cloacae | Derzelle et al. (2002) |
| GameXpeptides | Cytoxic | Eukaryotic cells | Bode et al. (2012) | |
| Glidobactin/Cepafungin I | None | Theodore et al. (2012), Dudnik et al. (2013), and Stein et al. (2012) | ||
| Indigoidine | Unknown | None | Brachmann et al. (2012) | |
| Indolea | Nematicidal | Caenorhabditis elegans, | Hu et al. (1996, Meloidogyne incognita, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, and Bursaphelenchus mucronatus1998) | |
| Kollisin A | Unknown | None | Bode et al. (2015) | |
| Lumizinone A | Cytotoxic | Human plasma | Park and Crawford (2015) | |
| Phurealipids | Unknown | None | Nollmann et al. (2015) | |
| Probactin | Antibiotic | None | Ciche et al. (2003) | |
| Pyrone | Antimycotic, Cytotoxic | None | Brachmann et al. (2013) | |
| Rhabduscin | Insecticidal potential | None | Crawford et al. (2012) | |
| Stilbene and its derivatives | 3,5-Dihydroxy-4-isopropyl stilbene (syn. 2-isopropyl-5-[(E)-2-phenylethenyl] benzene-1,3-diol)a | Nematicidal | C. elegans, B. xylophilus, B. mucronatus, and Aphelenchoides rhytium | Hu et al. (1996), Paul et al. (1981), Chen (1996), Shi et al. (2012) |
| Antibacterial | Bacillus subtilis | |||
| Antimycotic | Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus fumigatus, Botrytis cinerea, Candida tropicales, Cryptococcus neoformans, Pythium aphanidermatum, R. solani, Exserohilum turcicum, and Fusarium oxysporum | |||
| Insecticidal potential | ||||
| 3-hydroxy-2-isopropyl-5-phenethyl phenyl carbamatea | Antimycotic | P. aphanidermatum, R. solani, E. turcicum, and F. oxysporum | Shi et al. (2012) | |
| 2-isopropyl-5-(3-phenyl-2-oxiranyl) -benzene-1,3-diol (syn. 2-Isopropyl-5-(3-phenyl-2-oxiranyl) -1,3-benzenediol) | Antibacterial | B. subtilis, E. coli, Streptococcus pyogenes, and Staphylococcus aureus | Hu et al. (2006) | |
| Trans-cinnamic acid | Antimycotic | Fusicladium effusum | Bock et al. (2014) |