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The polymyxin group of antibiotics includes the closely related peptides polymyxin A (Ainsworth et al., 1947), polymyxin B1 and B2 (Brownlee and Jones, 1948), polymyxin C (Brownlee and Jones, 1948), polymyxin D (Benedict and Langlykke, 1947; Stansly et al.,1947), polymyxin E1 and E2 (Brown-Lee and Jones, 1948; Koyama, 1952), polymyxin M (Ilyinskaya and Rossovskaya, 1958; Khoklov et al., 1960), and circulin A and B (Murray et al., 1949). Polymyxin A was originally named aerosporin, and the antibiotic colistin (also called colimycin) is now known to be identical with polymyxin E. Polymyxins A, C and D have not been well characterized and may represent mixtures of substances.
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Paulus, H. (1967). Polymyxins. In: Gottlieb, D., Shaw, P.D. (eds) Biosynthesis. Antibiotics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38441-1_22
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