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Table 2 Antibiotics from slime molds

From: Slime molds as a valuable source of antimicrobial agents

Antibiotic name

Slime molds

Reference

Anthraquinonic acids (acyltetramic acids)

Fuligo septica

Loquin and Prevot (1948)

Mucous secretions or aqueous extracts of plasmodium

Liceo flexuosa

Sobels (1950)

Plasmodium extract

Physarum gyrosum

Considine and Mallette (1965)

A butanolic and fractionated (pure heterocyclic antibiotic D-1) extract of plasmodium

Physarum gyrosum

Schroeder and Mallette (1973)

Arcyriarubins (B, C), arcyriaflavins (B, C), arcyrioxepin A

Arcyria denudata

Steglich et al. (1980)

Fuligorubin A (acyltetramic acids)

Fuligo septica

Casser et al. (1987)

Vesparione (naphtha[2,3-b]pyran dione derivative)

Metatrichia vesparium

Kopanski et al. (1987)

Acyltetramic acids

Leocarpus fragilis

Steglich (1989)

Lycogarubins A-C (dimethyl pyrroledicarboxylate)

Lycogala epidendrum

Hashimoto et al. (1994)

Methanolic extract of fruiting body

Fuligo septica

Chiappeta et al. (1999)

AB0022A

Dictyostelium purpureum K1001

Sawada et al. (2000)

Bahiensol (A glycerolipid)

Didymium bahiense var. bahiense

Misono et al. (2003)

Cribrarione A (A dihydrofuranonaphthoquinone)

Cribraria purpurea

Naoe et al. (2003)

Fatty acids with Δ5,9-position of two double bonds (two)

Trichia Favogina

Trichia varia

Dembitsky et al. (2005)

Fulicineroside (A glycosidic dibenzofuran)

Fuligo cinerea

Rezanka et al. (2005)

Kehokorins A

Trichia favoginea var. persimilis

Kaniwa et al. (2006)

Plasmodial extract

Physarella oblonga

Herrera et al. (2011)

Plasmodial extract

Physarum melleum

Herrera et al. (2011)

Crude extract

Fuligo septica

Jiang et al. (2014)

4-methyl-5-pentylbenzene-1,3-diol (MPBD)

Dictyostelium discoideum

Murata et al. (2016)

Lycogalinosides A and B

Lycogala epidendrum

Wang et al. (2017)

EPS

EPS

Physarella oblonga

Physarum polycephalum

Huynh et al. (2017)

Ethanol, methanol and dichloromethane extract

Physarum album (Bull.)

Sevindik et al. (2018)

Differentiation-inducing factors (DIFs)

Dictyostelium discoideum

Kubohara et al. (2019)

Ethanol, methanol and dichloromethane extracts

Symphytocarpus amaurochaetoides

Nann.-Bremek.,

Lindbladia tubulina Fr.,

Fuligo septica (L.) FH Wigg.,

Stemonitis fusca Roth.,

Tubifera ferruginosa (Batsch) JF Gmel.,

Lycogala epidendrum L. Fr

Baba et al. (2020)