Anthracycline metabolites from baumycin-producing Streptomyces sp. D788. I. Isolation of antibiotic-blocked mutants and their characterization

J Antibiot (Tokyo). 1992 Aug;45(8):1255-67. doi: 10.7164/antibiotics.45.1255.

Abstract

Biosynthetically blocked mutants were obtained from a baumycin-producing Streptomyces sp. D788 newly isolated from soil. The first mutant isolated was a baumycin-negative but daunorubicin-accumulating mutant with a loss of 4'-substitution activity, from which all other blocked mutants were successively derived. These included a known 11-deoxydaunorubicin-producing mutant and several new types of mutants which produced mainly 10-carboxy-13-deoxocarminomycin, 10-methoxycarbonyl-13-deoxocarminomycin, their 11-deoxy derivatives or a precursor aglycone, respectively. In this paper, all the anthracycline components produced by the parent strain and its two known blocked mutants, a daunorubicin producer and a 11-deoxydaunorubicin producer, are also determined by HPLC and five new components are isolated. Cytotoxicities in vitro of all the components against L1210 cell culture are also described.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / isolation & purification*
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / metabolism
  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / pharmacology
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Daunorubicin / analogs & derivatives*
  • Daunorubicin / biosynthesis
  • Leukemia L1210 / pathology
  • Mice
  • Mutation
  • Streptomyces / genetics
  • Streptomyces / metabolism*
  • Tumor Cells, Cultured / drug effects

Substances

  • Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
  • baumycins
  • Daunorubicin