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SUBMITTER: Carr G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3481556 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carr Gavin G Derbyshire Emily R ER Caldera Eric E Currie Cameron R CR Clardy Jon J
Journal of natural products 20121001 10
Three new members of the angucycline class of antibiotics, pseudonocardones A-C (1-3), along with the known antibiotics 6-deoxy-8-O-methylrabelomycin (4) and X-14881 E (5) have been isolated from the culture of a Pseudonocardia strain associated with the fungus-growing ant Apterostigma dentigerum. Compounds 4 and 5 showed antibiotic activity against Bacillus subtilis 3610 and liver-stage Plasmodium berghei, while 1-3 were inactive or only weakly active in a variety of biological assays. Compound ...[more]