Antibiotic substances produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa; syntheses of Pyo Ib, Pyo Ic, and Pyo III.
Antibiotic substances produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa; syntheses of Pyo Ib, Pyo Ic, and Pyo III.
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10.1016/s0021-9258(18)55737-9
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1952-05
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I. Wells
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I. Wells
The isolation of five antibiotic substances of unknown structure from cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was reported by Hays et al.(1) in 1945. These compounds were insoluble in water but were soluble in a wide variety of organic solvents. Spectroscopically, they were closely related, although their antibiotic activities against a suitable test organism varied considerably. For lack of better nomenclature, these substances were named, in the order of their isolation, Pyo Ib, Pyo Ic, Pyo II, Pyo III, and Pyo IV.Since extracts of P. aeruginosa had been used successfully in the treatment of certain bacterial infections (I), it was deemed essential that these isolated antibiotic substances be identified structurally. The most successful method of degradation was ozonization (2). By this procedure, Pyo III yielded 1 mole of n-octanal per mole, and Pyo Ic yielded 1 mole of N-caprylanthranilic acid per mole. The latter fragment represented about one-half of the determined molecular weight of Pyo Ic (1). Because these were the only structurally significant fragments isolated, it was difficult to reach any conclusions concerning the over-all structures of Pyo III and Pyo Ic. This difficulty was partially resolved when it was noted that the ultraviolet absorption spectrum of 2-methyl-4-quinolinol (3) in 95 per cent ethanol was qualitatively the same as those of Pyo Ib and Pyo Ic in the same solvent. Investigations carried out with this compound revealed (a) that tetrahydro-2-methyl-4quinolino1, produced by hydrogenating 2-methyll-quinolinol in glacial acetic acid in the presence of reduced Adams’ platinum oxide catalyst, possessed qualitatively the same ultraviolet absorption spectrum as octahydro Pyo Ib and octahydro Pyo Ic (l), and (b) that ozonization of 2-methyl-4-quinolinol produced a fragment spectroscopically identified as N-acetylanthranilic acid. 1 However, these findings were confusing, since, by analogy to 2-methyl-4-quinolinol, Pyo Ic ought to be 2-nonyl-4-quinolinol, whereas the determined molecular