Studies on an Antitumor Antibiotic, Cervicarcin. I Isolation and Characterization

Abstract

In the course of searching new antibiotics produced by actinomycetes using Ehrlich ascites carcinoma as a testing tool, a new antitumor antibiotic designated cervicarcin was isolated in a crystalline form from the culture filtrate of Streptomyces ogaensis which will be reported in a forthcoming paper.

The isolation and physical and chemical properties as well as some of the biological properties are described in this paper.