Antibiotic Substances from Basidiomycetes

Anchel, Marjorie; Hervey, Annette; Rôbbins, William J.

doi:10.1073/pnas.36.5.300

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“…[32] In the 1940s and 1950s Marjorie Anchel, Annette Hervey and Frederick Kavanagh extracted hundreds of fruit bodies in the search for new antibiotics. [33,34] iFungi (New Latin: Mycetes) are divided into four phyla: Archemycota, Microsporidia (parasites of animals), Ascomycota ("Sac fungi") and Basidiomycota ("higher fungi").…”

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Agrochemicals

Schaefer

2014

Natural Products in the Chemical Industry

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Agrochemicals

Schaefer

2014

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“…Illudin M (I) was first isolated from Clitocybe illudens, strain 72027-5, in low yield (ANCHEL, HERVEY and ROBBINS, 1950; see previous section). Later (1952), these workers found that strain 14610-5 produced more illudin M (I) relative to illudin 5 (II); the ratio of the former to the latter was 1.29: 1 in this strain.…”

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Biosynthesis

1967

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All rights, especially that of translation into f oreign 1anguages, reserved. It is also forbidden to reproduce this book, either who1e or in part, by photomechanical means (photostat, microfilm and/or microcard) or by other procedure without written pennission from Springcr-Vcrlag Berlin Heide1bCig GmbH. DedicationFor most areas of scientific pursuit, there is usually that rare investigator who has the imagination to conceive ideas, who has faith in his visions, and who has the ability to critically test his concepts in the laboratory. Almost invariably, this scientist also inspires younger men to enthusiastically enter into his research program. To him should go the accolades and the recognitions of the esteem in which he is held. As only a small part of this esteem, we wish to dedicate these books to Professor SELMAN A. W AKSMAN in appreciation of his leadership and contributions in all facets of antibiotic research. PrefaceThe idea for publishing these books on the mechanism of action and on the biosynthesis of antibiotics was born of frustration in our attempts to keep abreast of the literature. Gone were the years when we were able to keep a bibliography on antibiotics and feel confident that we could find everything that was being published on this sUbject. These fields of investigation were moving forward so rapidly and were encompassing so wide a range of specialized areas in microbiology and chemistry that it was almost impossible to keep abreast of developments. In our naivete and enthusiasm, however, we were unaware that we were toying with an idea that might enmesh us, that we were creating an entity with a life of its own, that we were letting loose a Golom who instead of being our servant would be our master.That we set up ideals for these books is obvious; they would be current guides to developments and information in the areas of mechanism of action and biosynthesis of antibiotics. For almost every subject, we wished to enlist the aid of an investigator who himself had played a part in determining the nature of the phenomena that were being discussed. One concept for the books was that they include only antibiotics for which a definitive, well-documented mechanism of action or biosynthetic pathway was known. Yet, such an approach would not entirely serve the purpose we projected, for it would not encompass all of the information available in these fields of antibiotic investigations and blind searches for the original literature would still have to be made. We therefore chose to include any and all antibiotics about which some pertinent information had been published. It was obvious even at the start that such a compilation, integration, and analysis of information could never be complete unless scientific investigations ceased at the moment the last manuscript was submitted-an end that was neither desirable nor possible. An addendum was therefore included at the end of the volume and left open for the addition of new information until the last pages of the regular articles had been printed.The...

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“…[1][2][3] The illudins are preferentially cytotoxic in vitro to a variety of hematopoietic and solid tumor cells at nano-to picomolar concentrations. 4,5 In contrast, normal bone marrow progenitors or fibroblasts are relatively resistant to illudins and require micromolar concentrations for equivalent in vitro cytotoxicity.…”

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