• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.110-114
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• 1994

In searching for new insecticidal compounds from soil microorganisms, strains of streptomyces species showed insecticidal activities on Musca domestica and Bombyx mori were selected. Compounds I-IV, which were isolated from the metabolites of no. 46 strain, were identified as piericidin $C_1$, $C_2$, $C_3$ and $D_1$, respectively by UV and NMR data analyses.