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FIVE antibiotic polypeptides, polymyxins A, B, C and E (discovered in these Laboratories1) and polymyxin D (described by the American Cyanamid Company2), and readily differentiated by their aminoacid components and their behaviour on the paper chromatogram3, have been isolated from the products of the growth of different strains of B. polymyxa (B. aerosporus).
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WILKINSON, S. Crystalline Derivatives of the Polymyxins and the Identification of the Fatty Acid Component. Nature 164, 622 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164622a0
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