Hoshino Yasutaka, Mukai Akira, Yazawa Katsukiyo, Uno Jun, Ando Akikazu, Mikami Yuzuru, Fukai Toshio, Ishikawa Jun, Yamaguchi Kentaro
Research Center for Pathogenic Fungi and Microbial Toxicoses, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba, Chiba 260-8673, Japan.
J Antibiot (Tokyo). 2004 Dec;57(12):803-7. doi: 10.7164/antibiotics.57.803.
A novel antifungal antibiotic, transvalencin A, is produced by Nocardia transvalensis IFM 10065 isolated from a patient with actinomycotic mycetoma in Japan. The antibiotic structure was elucidated using NMR, mass spectrometric investigations, and X-ray crystallographic analysis. Transvalencin A is a 1:1 complex of a zinc and an organic acid with a phenolic substituent. Transvalencin A is comprised of o-substituted p-chlorophenol, tetrasubstituted oxazoline, disubstituted thiazolyl-N-methylthiazolidine and monosubstituted N-methylthiazolidine.