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The structural identity of the polypeptide antibiotics, samarosporin I(II) and stilbellin I(II) with emerimicin IV(III) has been established by thin-layer chromatography, quantitative amino acid analysis by ion-exchange chromatography, gas-liquid chromatography of the N-pentafluoropropionyl amino acid n-propyl esters and N,O-bis-pentafluoropropionyl phenylalaninol with quartz capillaries coated with the chiral stationary phase N-propionyl-L-valine-tert-butylamide, and determination of the relative molecular masses and sequence-specific fragments by field desorption fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry. The separation of closely related sequence analogues of the above polypeptides could be achieved by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography with spherical, fully porous octadecylsilyl bonded phases, and 86% aqueous methanol as eluent. The application of both chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods is demonstrated to be most valuable for the characterization of antibiotics with the unusual constituents α-aminoisobutyric acid, isovaline and phenylalaninol. The methology employed is regarded to be applicable to all polypeptide antibiotics of the peptaibol class.
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Brückner, H., Jung, G. & Przybylski, M. Chromatographic and mass spectrometric characterization of the structures of the polypeptide antibiotics samarosporin and stilbellin and identity with emerimicin. Chromatographia 17, 679–685 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02259320
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