Streptomyces capable of producing neutral macrolide antibacterial agents
AssigneePfizer Inc.
InventorsWalter D. Celmer, Walter P. Cullen, Hiroshi Maeda, Junsuke Tone
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Abstract
An antibiotic complex, consisting of one major and two minor components, has been isolated from fermentation of a new Streptomyces culture. The components from the complex are three new macrolides which are active as antibacterial agents against certain gram-negative and gram-positive microorganisms.
Claims1
A biologically pure culture of the microorganism Streptomyces toyocaensis subsp. humicola Huang subsp. nov. ATCC 39471, said culture being capable of producing neutral macrolides which have a keto sugar and contain a 2-hydroxyisovaleryl moiety in their structure, in a recoverable quantity, upon cultivation in an aqueous nutrient medium containing assimilable sources of nitrogen and carbon.
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