Nitrosoxacins A, B and C, new 5-lipoxygenase inhibitors.

this paper, we describe the production, isolation and structural studies of these new inhibitors. The producing strain was isolated from a soil sample collected in Kisarazu City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, and taxonomic studies indicated that the strain belonged to the genus Streptomyces. This strain was fermented in 500-ml Erlenmeyer flasks in 100 ml of medium (soluble starch 2.5%, glucose 1 %, Pharmamedia 1%, Brewer's yeast extract 0.3%, CaCO30.1% and Allophane 0.5%. The pH of the mediumwas adjusted to pH 7.0 before autoclaving.). The 5-LPO inhibitory activity was determined as described previously1}. The active substances were isolated according to the procedures shown in Scheme 1. Nitrosoxacins A, B and C complex were extracted from the fermentation broth with 1-butanol and each