L. Baczynskyj

PALDIMYCINS A AND B AND ANTIBIOTICS 273a2α AND 273a2β

Paldimycin (antibiotic 273a1) and antibiotic 273a2 as well as their individual components, paldimycins A (273a1 alpha) and B (273a1 beta) and antibiotics 273a2 alpha and 273a2 beta were synthesized from paulomycin, paulomycin A and paulomycin B, respectively, by reacting with N-acetyl-L-cysteine. The semisynthetic antibiotics had chromatographic behavior (TLC, HPLC) and physical and chemical properties identical to the properties of the corresponding antibiotics produced by Streptomyces paulus.

Purification of macrolide 2′-phosphotransferase fromStreptomyces coelicolor Müller

SummaryAn enzyme that catalyzes 2′-O-phosphorylation of oleandomycin and several other macrolide antibiotics has been purified approximately 47-fold from cell-free extracts ofStreptomyces coelicolor Müller, NRRL 3532 (UC™ 5240). The reaction product was verified as being oleandomycin-2′-O-phosphate by mass spectrometry. As a result of purification, the enzyme was separated from two lincosaminide inactivating enzyme activities also present in the cell-free extract.