1989 Volume 42 Issue 6 Pages 837-845
A strain of Streptoverticillium dnnamoneum produced a peptide antibiotic named lanthiopeptin, which contained four unusual amino acids, erythro-β-hydroxyaspartic acid, meso-lanthionine, threo-β-methyllanthionine and lysinoalanine. Lanthiopeptin showed antiviral activity against herpes simplex virus type 1 KOS strain infection in Vero cells by cytopathic effect reduction assay. The structure of lanthiopeptin is similar to that of ancovenin.