Jackson M, Karwowski J P, Theriault R J, Hardy D J, Swanson S J, Barlow G J, Tillis P M, McAlpine J B
Anti-infective Research Division, Abbott Laboratories, IL 60064.
J Antibiot (Tokyo). 1990 Mar;43(3):223-8. doi: 10.7164/antibiotics.43.223.
The altromycins are novel anthraquinone-derived antibiotics related to the pluramycins. They are produced by an actinomycete, AB 1246E-26, which was isolated from a South African bushveld soil. The altromycins have Gram-positive antibacterial activity with MICs of 0.2 to 3.12 micrograms/ml against Streptococci and Staphylococci.