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  2. Blasticidin A as an inhibitor of aflatoxin production by Aspergillus parasiticus

Blasticidin A as an inhibitor of aflatoxin production by Aspergillus parasiticus

  • J Antibiot (Tokyo). 2000 Nov;53(11):1265-71. doi: 10.7164/antibiotics.53.1265.
S Sakuda 1 M Ono H Ikeda T Nakamura Y Inagaki R Kawachi J Nakayama A Suzuki A Isogai H Nagasawa
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  • 1 Department of Applied Biological Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Abstract

Blasticidin A, an Antibiotic, showed strong inhibitory activity toward aflatoxin production by Aspergillus parasiticus. Its structure was characterized by NMR and chemical degradation experiments as 1, which is a tetramic acid derivative with a highly oxygenated long alkyl chain similar to aflastatin A (2). Absolute configurations of the eight chiral centers at C-4, 6, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 37 of 1 were chemically determined. Blasticidin A almost completely inhibited aflatoxin production at 0.5 microM.

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