The structures of thiolutin and aureothricin, antibiotics containing a unique pyrrolinonodithiole nucleus

WD Celmer, IA Solomons

Index: Celmer; Solomons Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1955 , vol. 77, p. 2861,2865

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Abstract

Thiolutin'and aureothricin2 are similar yellow crystalline, sulfur-containing antibiotics isolated from among the elaboration products of different Streptomyces species. Both substances are of interest because of their high activity against a variety of fungi, ameboid parasites, Gram-positive, Gramnegative, and acid fast