Pfizer Handbook of Microbial Metabolites 396 



Streptomyces hawaiiensis n. sp. 



M. J. Cron, D. F. Whitehead, I. R. Harper, B. Heinemann 

 and J. Lain, Antibiotics and Chemotherapy 6 63 (1956). 



841 Coliformin. 



A polypetide, molecular weight 4000 ± 400, containing 

 glutamic acid, aspartic acid, lysine, valine, leucine, serine, 

 alanine and glycine. Positive Molisch. Contains traces 

 of phosphorus and sulfur. 



An E. coli-Aerobacter aerogenes type of bacterium 

 Stig K. L. Freyschuss, Stig O. Pehrson and Borje Steinberg, 

 Antibiotics and Chemotherapy 5 218 (1955). 



842 Mycosubtilin, white crystals, m.p. 256°. 



A polypeptide, C 55.31, H 7.61, N 15.15. 

 Bacillus subtilis 



Robert P. Walton and H. Boyd Woodruff, /. Clin. Invest. 28 

 924 (1949). 



843 Grizein ( Helianthate ) homogeneous brown powder, m.p. 194- 



196° (dec.) (hydrochloride) white, hygroscopic powder. 



A basic polypeptide complex. Positive biuret, ninhy- 

 drin, glucosamine reactions. Negative maltol, histidine, 

 Sakaguchi tests. 



Streptomyces griseus-like strains 



N. A. Krasilnikov, A. N. Belozerskii, Ya. I. Rautenshtein, 

 A. I. Korenyako, N. I. Nikitina, A. I. Sokolova and S. O. Ury- 

 son, Mikrobiologiya 26 418 (1957). 



Licheniformins, amorphous white powders, no m.p. 



844 Licheniformin A, hydrochloride: [aln^^ —37.4° (c 1 in chloro- 



form). 



845 Licheniformin B, hydrochloride: [a]D^° —37.7° (c 1 in chloro- 



form). 



846 Licheniformin C, hydrochloride: [ajn^" —36.8° (c 1 in chloro- 



form ) . 



A rather high molecular weight polypeptide complex. 

 Negative glucosamine and Molisch. Positive Sakaguchi, 

 biuret. 



Licheniformins A and B contain: aspartic acid, glycine, 

 serine, lysine, arginine, valine, proline and phenylalanine. 



Bacillus licheniformis 



R. K. Callow, R. E. Glover, P. D'Arcy Hart and G. M. Hills, 

 Brit. J. Exptl. Path. 28 418 (1947). 



