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Formicamycins, antibacterial polyketides produced by Streptomyces formicae isolated from African Tetraponera plant-ants

We report a new Streptomyces species named S. formicae that was isolated from the African fungus-growing plant-ant Tetraponera penzigi and show that it produces novel pentacyclic polyketides that are active against MRSA and VRE. The chemical scaffold of these compounds, which we have called the form...

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Autores principales: Qin, Zhiwei, Munnoch, John T., Devine, Rebecca, Holmes, Neil A., Seipke, Ryan F., Wilkinson, Karl A., Wilkinson, Barrie, Hutchings, Matthew I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal Society of Chemistry 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28507698
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6sc04265a