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The Streptogramin Family of Antibiotics

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Mechanism of Action

Part of the book series: Antibiotics ((ANTIBIOTICS,volume 1))

Abstract

The classification of antibiotics in the streptogramin family has been reviewed briefly by Lester Smith (1963). All the antibiotics of this family are closely related in composition, mode of action and antibacterial spectra. Streptogramin itself was first obtained from culture filtrates of a species of streptomyces, now classified as Streptomyces graminofaciens (Charney et al., 1953) and since then other closely related antibiotics have been described, for example, staphylomycin, ostreogrycin, synergistin, mikamycin, pristinamycin and vernamycin. These antibiotics are mixtures of two or more different active compounds and there are numerous reports of the isolation and properties of the individual components. All streptogramins can be placed in two major groups A and B (Table 1). The antibiotics in group A show a marked synergism with those in group B in their activity against Gram-positive bacteria and consequently all the complex antibiotics of this family have a markedly higher activity than the individual components. Viridogrisein, unlike all the other members of the family, is not a complex antibiotic but is included in group B because its chemical structure and properties are related to others in the group. Of the single components of the streptogramin family, viridogrisein is, in general, the most active.

This paper was written while the author was in residence at the University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry, Sub-department of Chemical Microbiology.

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Vazquez, D. (1967). The Streptogramin Family of Antibiotics. In: Gottlieb, D., Shaw, P.D. (eds) Mechanism of Action. Antibiotics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46051-7_27

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