Hygromycin A and methoxyhygromycin, novel inhibitors of K88 antigen synthesis of enterotoxic Escherichia coli strain.

Abstract
During the screening for inhibitors of K88 antigen synthesis that suppress hemagglutination by E. coli E68 NIH 457-71, we found Streptomyces sp. No. 207 produced two active substances, one of which was identified as hygromycin A. Another new compound, named methoxyhygromycin, was very similar to hygromycin A but methoxyhygromycin had a methoxy group on the neoinosamine-2 moiety instead of the methylene dioxy group found in hygromycin A. Although hygromycin A and methoxyhygromycin had almost no effect on the growth of E. coli E68 NIH 457-71, they inactivated the hemagglutination activity of E. coli at low concentrations of 12.5 μg/ml and 25 μg/ml, respectively.

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