• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.32 no.9
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• pp.3327-3332
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• 2011

Antimicrobial peptides have recently gained the much attention because of their ability to make defense system from attacking bacterial infections. Drosocin has been considered as very attractive antibiotic agents because of low toxicity against human erythrocytes and active at the low concentration. We have studied the structureactivity relationship of a glycopeptide drosocin focused on the N-acetyl-D-galactoside at $Thr^{11}$ residue. Based on the radial diffusion assay, we found that the acetylation of carbohydrate moiety increased the antimicrobial activity and the $Pro^{10}$, present in the middle of drosocin plays an important role in the antimicrobial activity. Our results provide a good lead compound for further studies on the design of drosocin-based analogues targeting glyco linked Thr site.

• Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.564-569
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• 1993

AF-001A is a novel antifungal cyclic glyco-peptise isolated from Pseudomonas cepacia AF6008. AF-001A is a mixture of AF-011A1 and AF-001A2. Each compound contains glycine(1), serine(2), asparagine(1), 2,4-diaminobutyric acid(1), beta-hydroxytyrosine(1), xylose(1) and a methylene chain amino acid(1). Additionally, A1 contains one beta-hydroxyasparagine that is replaced with as asparagine in A2. AF-011A showed high in vitro antifungal activity against various animal and plant pathogenic fungi and caused no irritation on the skin of rabbits.