Chugai Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshiharu Nawata

Kunio Ando

Hiroshi Sasaki

Haruki Ogawa

Hiroshi Okazaki

Takao Noto

Tomoyoshi Hosokawa

Tsuneo Okutomi

Hideo Oishi

A novel antibiotic No. 2-200 represented by the formula ##STR1## which has a broad antimicrobial spectrum and a process for producing the same by cultivating an antibiotic No. 2-200 producing microorganism of the genus Nocardia, and recovering by isolation the antibiotic No. 2-200 accumulated in the culture.

Antibiotic No. 2-200 and process for producing thereof

A novel antibiotic designated as ascofuranone having useful hypotensive and hypolipidemic activities produced from an ascofuranone-producing microorganism of Ascochyta viciae Libert by an aerobic culturing, and processes for the production and use of ascofuranone are disclosed.

Antibiotic ascofuranone and process for the production thereof

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Tokyo, Japan

Yoshiharu Nawata