Skip to main content
. 2021 Jun 23;11:92. doi: 10.1186/s13568-021-01251-3

Table 2.

Antibiotics from slime molds

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)