REVISED STRUCTURE FOR THE PHENAZINE ANTIBIOTIC FROM PSEUDOMONAS-FLUORESCENS 2-79 (NRRL B-15132)
REVISED STRUCTURE FOR THE PHENAZINE ANTIBIOTIC FROM PSEUDOMONAS-FLUORESCENS 2-79 (NRRL B-15132)
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DOI:
10.1128/aac.31.12.1967
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发表时间:
1987-12-01
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
WARREN, RFO
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作者:
BRISBANE, PG;JANIK, LJ;WARREN, RFO
A phenazine antibiotic (mp, 243 to 244.degree. C), isolated in a yield of 134 .mu.g/ml from cultures of Pseudomonas fluorescens 2-79 (NRRL B-15132), was indistinguishable in all of its measured physicochemical (melting point, UV and infrared spectra, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry data) and biological properties from synthetic phenazine-1-carboxylic acid. Gurusiddaiah et al. (S. Gurusiddaiah, D. M. Weller, A. Sarkar, and R. J. Cook, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 29:488-495, 1986) atrributed a dimeric phenazine structure to an antibiotic with demonstrably similar properties obtained from the same bacterial strain. Direct comparison of the physicochemical properties of the authenic antibiotic obtained from D. M. Weller with synthetic phenazine-1-carboxylic acid and with the natural product from the present study established that all three samples were indistinguishable within the experimental error of each method. No evidence to support the existence of a biologically active dimeric species was obtained. Phenazine-1-carboxylic acid has a pKa of 4.24 .+-. 0.01 (25.degree. C; I = 0.09), and its carboxylate anion shows no detectable antimicrobial activity compared with the active uncharged carboxylic acid species. These data suggest that phenazine-1-carboxylic acid is probably not an effective biological control agent for phytopathogens in environments with a pH greater than 7.