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  • Title: [Separation and characteristics of the components of the antibiotic virenomycin].
    Author: Kudinova MK, Kuliaeva VV, Potapova NP, Rubasheva LM, Maksimova TS.
    Journal: Antibiotiki; 1982; 27(7):507-11. PubMed ID: 6291450.
    Abstract:
    The composition of virenomycin, a new antitumor antibiotic was studied. Two components V and M were detected with high resolution liquid chromatography and thin layer chromatography on siluphol (Czechoslovakia) and silica gel (Merk, BRD). A preparative method for separation of the antibiotic components with the use of chromatography on columns with silica gel was developed. Biological and physicochemical properties of separate components were studied to show that they significantly differed by their antibacterial action in vitro: virenomycin V was 2 to 4 times more active than virenomycin M against a number of microbes. The physicochemical properties of the components are similar. It was shown with mass spectrometry that the molecular weight of virenomycin is 12 units higher than that of virenomycin M. The PMR spectra showed that this difference is due to the presence of a vinyl group in the chromophore moiety of the virenomycin V molecule and a methyl group at the similar site of the virenomycin M molecule.
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