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THE importance of inhibitory compounds in normal living systems, as distinct from their artificial introduction for example, as therapeutic agents, is being increasingly realized. In particular, substances have been isolated from certain micro–organisms which inhibit the growth of other species (for detailed references see Waksman and Woodruff1). The structures of the majority of these compounds are not yet known, and in view of their importance as possible therapeutic agents or as models for such agents, the following results with two bacterial pigments of known composition are given.
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MCILWAIN, H. Antibacterial Action of Two Bacterial Products of Known Structure. Nature 148, 628 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148628a0
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