Trioxacarcins, novel antitumor antibiotics. I. Producing organism, fermentation and biological activities.
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Japan Antibiotics Research Association in The Journal of Antibiotics
- Vol. 34 (12) , 1519-1524
- https://doi.org/10.7164/antibiotics.34.1519
Abstract
A group of antitumor antibiotics with a novel skeleton, trioxacarcins, was discovered in culture broths of actinomycete strain DO-45. The producing organism was subsequently determined to be a new strain and named Streptomyces bottropensis sp. nov. The antibiotics are active against gram-positive bacteria and experimental murine tumors such as sarcoma 180 and leukemia P388.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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