The Journal of Antibiotics
Online ISSN : 1881-1469
Print ISSN : 0021-8820
ISSN-L : 0021-8820
NEO-ENACTIN, A NEW ANTIFUNGAL ANTIBIOTIC POTENTIATING POLYENE ANTIFUNGAL ANTIBIOTICS. I
FERMENTATION, EXTRACTION, PURIFICATION AND PHYSICO-CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES
HISAO KONDOHIDEKO SUMOMOGITOSHIO OTANISHOSHIRO NAKAMURA
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1979 Volume 32 Issue 1 Pages 13-17

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A new antifungal antibiotic, named neo-enactin, was isolated from the cultured mycelia of Strain H 829-MY 10, identified as a new subspecies of Streptoverticillium and named Streptoverticillium olivoreticuli subsp. neoenacticus. The antibiotic was produced with a tetraene antifungal antibiotic, found mainly in the cultured mycelia of Strain H 829-MY 10 and it was extracted with methanol. The antibiotic is of a basic nature and it can be extracted with ethyl acetate at alkaline pH. Purification of neo-enactin was carried out by partition chromatography on cellulose and elution with ethyl acetate bufferized with phosphate buffer (pH 8.0). Neo-enactin shows strong antifungal activity and potentiates the antifungal activity of polyene antifungal antibiotics.

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