[Determination of nystatin component composition using HPLC and TLC with densitometry]. / Opredelenie komponentnogo sostava nistatina metodami VEZhKh i TSKh s ispol'zovaniem densitometrii.

The component composition of nystatin produced by an improved strain of Streptomyces noursei was determined by HPLC on Milichrom chromatograph (USSR). It was shown that the antibiotic consisted of nystatins A1, A2, A3 and B and admixture substances. The data appeared to be in good agreement with the results of the complex TLC investigation, by using densitometry. The component composition of the samples was evidenced by SIEAP mass spectrometry. Physiochemical and biological characteristics of separate components are presented.

[Isolation and study of the compounds of a peptide nature contained in an oleandomycin preparation]. / Vydelenie i izuchenie soedinenii peptidnoi prirody, vkhodiashchikh v sostav preparata oleandomitsina.

Marketed oleandomycin phosphate, as well as the International Standard of oleandomycin (Great Britain, the 1st Int. Std., 1964) were studied with a purpose of determining their composition. The components were separated by liquid chromatography on columns with Sefadex LH-20 using 50 per cent ethanol as an eluent. The Lowry method using the biuret test and assays of the amino acids in the hydrolysates were used to show for the first time that marketed oleandomycin and its International Standard contained an admixture of the peptide nature. The data of the amino acid assays suggest that the admixture and oleandomycin is a fixed complex (adduct).