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1. Two new aminodeoxy sugars — acosamine and actinosamine — have been obtained from the antibiotic actinoidin.
2. Acosamine has the structure of 3-amino-2,3,6-trideoxy-L-arabinohexose.
3. Actinosamine is identical with 4-O-methylacosamine.
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Institute for the Search for New Antibiotics, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR. S. Ordzhonikidze All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemicals. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 1, pp. 101–107, January–February, 1973.
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Lomakina, N.N., Spiridonova, I.A., Sheinker, Y.N. et al. The structure of the amino sugars from the antibiotic actinoidin. Chem Nat Compd 9, 90–94 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00580901
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