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During the course of screening microbial broth extracts in various high through-put bioassays (eg receptor binding or enzyme inhibition), several actinomycete cultures were discovered to produce active metabolites. The natural products elaiophylin and/or geldanamycin are produced by severalStreptomyces violaceusniger strains, and the bioactivity of the extracts from these cultures was frequently associated with the fractions containing these metabolites. CPC coupled to a photodiode array detector and LC-MS techniques were applied to these broth extracts to ascertain rapidly when these natural products were present. These methodologies allowed us to identify the metabolites quickly in the crude extract, and the application demonstrated further the utility of CPC-photodiode array detection and LC-MS as powerful, initial analytical tools in analyses of the complex metabolite profiles produced by microorganisms.
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Alvi, K.A., Peterson, J. & Hofmann, B. Rapid identification of elaiophylin and geldanamycin inStreptomyces fermentation broths using CPC coupled with a photodiode array detector and LC-MS methodologies. Journal of Industrial Microbiology 15, 80–84 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01569804
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