Chemical Structure of Toyocamycin

Abstract

From the culture broth of an unidentified species of streptomyces, a crystalline antibiotic, active against Candida albicans and Mycobacterium B. C. G., was isolated and was found to be identical with toyocamycin which have been reported by Nishimura et al¹⁾.

The present paper deals with the structural study of toyocamycin and evidence for ithe total structure (XVIII) of the antibiotic is presented.