| Literature DB >> 18503194 |
Hans-Peter Fiedler1, Christina Bruntner, Julia Riedlinger, Alan T Bull, Gjert Knutsen, Michael Goodfellow, Amanda Jones, Luis Maldonado, Wasu Pathom-aree, Winfried Beil, Kathrin Schneider, Simone Keller, Roderich D Sussmuth.
Abstract
A family of three novel aminofuran antibiotics named as proximicins was isolated from the marine Verrucosispora strain MG-37. Proximicin A was detected in parallel in the marine abyssomicin producer "Verrucosispora maris" AB-18-032. The characteristic structural element of proximicins is 4-amino-furan-2-carboxylic acid, a hitherto unknown gamma-amino acid. Proximicins show a weak antibacterial activity but a strong cytostatic effect to various human tumor cell lines.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18503194 DOI: 10.1038/ja.2008.125
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Antibiot (Tokyo) ISSN: 0021-8820 Impact factor: 2.649