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A novel quinone antibiotic from Malbranchea cinnamomea TAIM 13T54
Y M Chiung1, T Fujita, M Nakagawa
1Department of Agricultural Chemistry, University of Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
The Journal of Antibiotics
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
A novel quinone antibiotic named malbranicin was isolated from the culture filtrate and mycelium of Malbranchea cinnamomea TAIM 13T54, a thermophilic fungus. The antibiotic was elucidated to be 6-(1-acetylethyl)-2-methoxy-2,5-cyclohexadiene-1,4-dione by spectral analysis. Malbranicin exhibited antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities against Gram-positive bacteria and mammalian cell lines, respectively.