Mangroves have unique intertidal ecosystems of the tropics, which possess prolific biodiversity of actinomycetes. 1 Recent discoveries 2,3 of new species of microorganisms from the ecosystems encouraged us to explore the bioactive secondary metabolites from endophytic actinomycetes isolated from mangrove plants. As a result, the cultured broth of the strain I07A-01824, an endophytic Streptomyces albidoflavus, isolated from the leaf of Bruguiera gymnorrhiza collected at Shankou, Guangxi Province, People's Republic of China, was found to show moderate inhibiting activity against Magnaporth grisea. By bioassayguided fractionation, antimycin A 18 (1) was purified by chromatographies. By analyzing the spectroscopic data (including 1D and 2D NMR), its chemical structure was identified to be the first naturally occurring antimycin with an acetoxy group at C-8 (Figure 1).The strain I07A-01824 identified as Streptomyces was isolated from the leaf of B. gymnorrhiza collected at Shankou, Guangxi Province, People's Republic of China. A stock culture of the strain I07A-01824 was maintained on yeast and malt extract with glucose (YMG) agar slant consisting of 0.4% yeast extract (Beijing Aoboxing Biotechnology, Beijing, China), 1% malt extract (Beijing Aoboxing Biotechnology), 0.4% glucose and 1.2% agar (pH 7.2). The stock culture was inoculated into 250 ml Erlenmeyer flasks containing 50 ml of seed medium consisting of 0.5% glucose, 0.5% yeast extract, 0.5% peptone, 0.5% beef extract (Beijing Aoboxing Biotechnology), 0.4% corn steep liquor (North China Pharmaceutical Corporation, Shijiazhuang City, China), 2% soluble starch, 1% soybean meal (Beijing Comwin Pharm-Culture, Beijing, China), 0.4% CaCO 3 and 0.002% CoCl 2 (pH 7.2). The flask culture was incubated on a rotary shaker (180 r.p.m.) at 28 1C for 36 h. The seed culture (50 ml) was transferred into each of 40 5-l Erlenmeyer flasks containing 1 l of the same seed medium. The fermentation was carried out at 28 1C for 72 h on a rotary shaker (180 r.p.m.).The fermentation broth (40 l) was filtered and the filtrate was extracted with EtOAc (40 l). The extract was dried with Na 2