Amycolamicin: a novel broad-spectrum antibiotic inhibiting bacterial topoisomerase.

The abuse of antibacterial drugs imposes a selection pressure on bacteria that has driven the evolution of multidrug resistance in many pathogens. Our efforts to discover novel classes of antibiotics to combat these pathogens resulted in the discovery of amycolamicin (AMM). The absolute structure of AMM was determined by NMR spectroscopy, X-ray analysis, chemical degradation, and modification of its functional groups.

Paleic acid, a fatty acid from Paenibacillus sp.: taxonomy, fermentation, isolation, structure determination, and anti-Mannheimia and -Pasteurella activity.

Paleic acid (1), an antibiotic, was obtained from a fermentation broth of Paenibacillus sp. BMK771-AF3. The compound is a fatty acid (9Z,16R)-16-hydroxy-9-octadecenoic acid ((R)-16-hydroxyoleic acid), whose isolation required protection of its polar functional groups.

DNA sequencing and transcriptional analysis of the kasugamycin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces kasugaensis M338-M1.

Streptomyces kasugaensis M338-M1 produces the aminoglycoside antibiotic kasugamycin (KSM). We previously cloned, sequenced and characterized the KSM acetyltransferase, transporter, and some of the biosynthetic genes from this strain. To identify other potential genes in a chromosome walk experiment, a 6.

Kigamicins, novel antitumor antibiotics. I. Taxonomy, isolation, physico-chemical properties and biological activities.

Novel antibiotics named kigamicin A, B, C, D, and E were discovered from the culture broth of Amycolatopsis sp. ML630-mF1 by their selective killing activity against PANC-1 cells only under a nutrient starved condition. Under a condition of nutrient starvation, kigamicins A, B, C, and D inhibited PANC-1 cell survival at 100 times lower concentration than in normal culture.

Negamycin restores dystrophin expression in skeletal and cardiac muscles of mdx mice.

The ability of aminoglycoside antibiotics to promote read-through of nonsense mutations has attracted interest in these drugs as potential therapeutic agents in genetic diseases. However, the toxicity of aminoglycoside antibiotics may result in severe side effects during long-term treatment. In this paper, we report that negamycin, a dipeptide antibiotic, also restores dystrophin expression in skeletal and cardiac muscles of the mdx mouse, an animal model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) with a nonsense mutation in the dystrophin gene, and in cultured mdx myotubes.

kasT gene of Streptomyces kasugaensis M338-M1 encodes a DNA-binding protein which binds to intergenic region of kasU-kasJ in the kasugamycin biosynthesis gene cluster.

We previously reported that a 4.2 kb SacI-EcoRI DNA region from Streptomyces kasugaensis M338-M1, a kasugamycin (KSM) producer, included KSM transporter genes (kasKLM). As an extension of that study, a 3.

Isolation of a novel cyclic hexadepsipeptide pipalamycin from Streptomyces as an apoptosis-inducing agent.

The novel cyclic hexadepsipeptide named pipalamycin was isolated from a culture filtrate of Streptomyces sp. ML297-90F8 as an apoptosis-inducing agent. The antibiotic was found to be consisting of each one mole of alanine, N-hydroxyalanine, glycine, N-acylated 3-hydroxyleucine, and two moles of piperazic acid.

Bacilysocin, a novel phospholipid antibiotic produced by Bacillus subtilis 168.

We have found a novel phospholipid antibiotic (named bacilysocin) which accumulates within (or associates with) the cells of Bacillus subtilis 168 and determined the structure by nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometry analyses. The structure of bacilysocin elucidated was 1-(12-methyltetradecanoyl)-3-phosphoglyceroglycerol. Bacilysocin demonstrated antimicrobial activity, especially against certain fungi.

Pholipeptin, a Novel Cyclic Lipoundecapeptide fromPseudomonas fluorescens.

An inhibitor of phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC), pholipeptin (1), was purified from the culture broth of Pseudomonas sp. by solvent extraction and column chromatography. Acid hydrolysis of 1 gave Leu, Ile, Ser, Thr, and Asp moieties.

Antibacterial activity and nephrotoxicity of two novel 2″-amino derivatives of arbekacin.

The antibacterial activity of 2″-amino-2″-deoxyarbekacin (AmABK) and 2″-amino-5,2″-dideoxy-5-epiaminoarbekacin (AmABK) was comparable to, or slightly less than, that of arbekacin (ABK) against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, including 60 stock cultures and 50 clinical isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but more potent against 31 isolates of MRSA possessing an aminoglycoside-modifying enzyme APH(2″)/AAC(6'). AmABK and AmABK showed in vivo activity which paralleled in vitro MICs, and were less toxic than ABK in acute toxicity in mice and nephrotoxicity in rats. These results indicate that the 2″-amino group introduced to ABK confers high stabilization to the aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes, while reducing acute and renal toxicities.