Walter Keller-Schierlein

Über eisenhaltige Wachstumsfaktoren, die Sideramine, und ihre Antagonisten, die eisenhaltigen Antibiotika Sideromycine

A new group of iron-containing metabolites, with growth stimulating properties for a number of microorganisms, has been isolated from streptomycetes and namedferrioxamines. It is proposed to include them, together with some known substances, like ferrichrome, coprogen and the terregens factor, which either contain or bind iron, in a new class of growth factors, thesideramines. The biological property of the sideramines is counteracted by iron-containing antibiotics from streptomycetes, thesideromycins. They comprise, besides known products like grisein and albomycin, two new groups of antibiotics, among them the highly potentferrimycins.

The structure of tryptanthrin

Eine Röntgenstrukturanalyse des Antibioticums Tryptanthrin ergab die Strukturformel I. Tryptanthrin erwies sich als identisch mit synthetischem 6,12-Dihydro-6,12-dioxoindolo-[2,1-b]-chinazolin.

(S)-3-p-methoxyphenyl-3-acetylaminopropan-1-ol, a new metabolite of an actinomycete

(S)-3-p-methoxyphenyl-3-acetamidopropan-1-ol was isolated from cultures of an actinomycete (Streptomyces michiganensis). Its structural determination by spectroscopic means and its synthesis are described.