Aoyagi T, Yoshida S, Nakamura Y, Shigihara Y, Hamada M, Takeuchi T
Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan.
J Antibiot (Tokyo). 1990 Feb;43(2):143-8. doi: 10.7164/antibiotics.43.143.
Probestin has been isolated as part of a program designed to find microorganism-produced inhibitors of aminopeptidase M from Streptomyces azureus MH663-2F6. It was purified by use of column chromatography of Amberlite XAD-4, silica gel, YMC-gel, Toyopearl HW-40, YMC D-ODS-5 (HPLC) and then isolated as colorless powders. Probestin is competitive with the substrate, and the inhibition constant (Ki) of it was 1.9 x 10(-8) M.