Brasilinolide A, a new macrolide antibiotic produced by Nocardia brasiliensis: Producing strain, isolation and biological activity

Journal of Antibiotics

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1036-1041

  Tanaka, Yasushi ^a   Komaki, Hisayuki ^a   Yazawa, Katsukiyo ^a   Mikami, Yuzuru ^a   Nemoto, Akira ^b   Tojyo, Takashi ^b   Kadowaki, Kiyoshi ^b   Shigemori, Hideyuki ^c   Kobayashi, Jun'ichi ^c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Research Laboratory   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCIN; BRASILINOLIDE A; CYCLOSPORIN A; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MACROLIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG PURIFICATION; DRUG STRUCTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MIXED LYMPHOCYTE REACTION; MOUSE; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; TAXONOMY; YEAST;

EID: 0031453626     PISSN: 00218820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.50.1036     Document Type: Article

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