PMID: 7019175Nov 1, 1980Paper

Malioxamycin, a new antibiotic with spheroplast-forming activity. I. Producing organism, fermentation, isolation and characterization

The Journal of Antibiotics
M TakeuchiM Arai

Abstract

Strain No. 15748, identifies as Streptomyces lydicus, produces a new antibiotic malioxamycin. Malioxamycin is a water-soluble, amphoteric antibiotic with low molecular weight, having a valine and a malic acid moieties in its structure. It gave a positive ninhydrin and ferric chloride reactions. Malioxamycin inhibited the growth of some Gram-negative bacteria by acting on peptidoglycan synthesis in the cell wall and produced spheroplasts from those sensitive bacteria.

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