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A New Antimalarial Polyether from a Marine Streptomyces sp. H668
Minkyun Na1, Damaris A F Meujo, Dion Kevin
1Department of Pharmacognosy, and National Center for Natural Products Research, School of Pharmacy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, U.S.A.
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The antimalarial guided fractionation of the culture of marine Streptomyces sp. strain H668 led to the isolation of a new polyether metabolite. The structure was determined by comprehensive NMR and MS assignments. This new metabolite showed in vitro antimalarial activity against both the chloroquine-susceptible (D6) and -resistant (W2) clones of Plasmodium falciparum, without cytotoxicity to normal cells (Vero) making it a promising first lead from this marine bacterium.

