Affiliation:
1. Division of Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York
Abstract
Antibiotic complex 4205, a basic polypeptide, was isolated from a nonsporulating bacillus. It was separated into two components, A and B, each composed of 2,4-diaminobutyric acid, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, serine, and valine, but in different proportions, namely, 4:1:2:1:1:1 and 5:1:3:1:2:2, respectively. There was also an ether-soluble moiety in each that had the characteristics of a fatty acid. This antibiotic differed chemically from other known antibiotics. Both A and B were effective against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, cytotoxic for various tissue cell lines, highly toxic for mice by intraperitoneal injection, and toxic for chick embryos by the amniotic and allantoic routes, but not by yolk-sac inoculation. Antibiotic, in amounts sublethal by the allantoic route, inhibited the multiplication of 10 to 100 minimal infective doses of influenza type A, PR8, in embryonated eggs.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine
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