GB2306480A - Antifungal agents - Google Patents

Abstract

Novel compounds having the formula and exhibit antifungal activity. They are obtained by cultivating the fungus ATCC 74353 in a nutrient medium containing assimilable sources of carbon and nitrogen.

Description

TITLE OF THE INVENTION ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to novel antifungal compounds, compositions and methods of use. The compounds and compositions exhibit broad spectrum antifungal activity against human fungal pathogens. Clinical treatment of human fungal infections has relied mainly on two types of antifungal agents. These agents are amphotericin B, which is fungicidal and capable of curing fungal infections at the cost of severe side effects to the patient, and ketoconazole and other azole agents, which exhibit fewer side effects but are only fungi static.

Thus, there is a need for new human antifungal agents.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to compounds of the formula (I) and (II):

The compounds have antimicrobial and fungicidal properties and may be useful for controlling systemic and superficial fungal infections in humans with fewer side effects than standard antifungal agents such as amphotericin B or ketoconazole.

The compounds are obtained by cultivation of Chrysosporium sp., MF 6054 in the culture collection of Merck & Co..

Inc., Rahway, N.J.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The compounds are colorless and characterized by the following spectral properties: Compound (I) ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRAL DATA #max: 206 nm ( 3,550) INFRARED SPECTRAL DATA Recorded as a thin film on ZnSe: 3390, 2952, 1703, 1470, 1384, 1207, 1114, 1041, 1012, 969, 823 cm-l MASS SPECTRAL DATA Mass spectra were recorded on JEOL SX-102A (electron impact, El, 90eV) and TSQ70B (LC/MS-ESI, Liquid chromatography Electrospray Ionization) mass spectrometers. The molecular weight was determined by negative ion ESI to be 584 (observed [M-H]- at m/z 583).High resolution EI data indicated an empirical formula of C30H4404 (found 468.3206, calculated 468.3239) for the 486 fragment ion, and this value would correspond to a molecular fonnula of C30H4909P for the parent compound. Exact mass measurements were performed at high resolution (HR-EI) using perfluorokerosene (PFK) as the internal standard.

HR El-MS Found: 468.3206 Calculated for C30H4909P-H3P04-H20: 468.3239 NMR SPECTRAL DATA NMR spectra were recorded in MeOH-d4 at 500 MHz (1H) or 125 MHz (13C). Chemical shifts are reported downfield from TMS (tetramethylsilane) and spectra were referenced to the solvent peak (3.31 ppm for lH spectra and 49.1 ppm for 13C spectra).

ssC NMR SPECTRA 6 13C: 180.3(s), 146.7(s), 117.9(d), 81.5(d), 77.8(d), 74.8(d), 64.0(t) [d; J=9.1 Hz], 61.0(d), 55.5(d), 53.5(s), 50.9(d), 47.1(d), 45.6(s), 44.0(s), 43.0(s), 37.5(t), 36.8(s), 34.0(t), 32.0(d), 31.7(t), 29.3(t), 26.9(t), 24.7(q), 23.4(q), 22.6(q), 21.8(q), 21.0(t), 20.9(t), 14.6(q), 11.3(q) ppm IH NMR SPECTRA 6 1H: 5.40(br s; 1H), 4.30(dd; 11.2, 4.8; 1H), 4.08(dd; 11.2, 3.6; 1H), 3.77(d; 1H), 3.73(dd; 1H), 3.33(d; 9.2; 1H), 2.85(m; 1H), 2.33(m; 1H), 2.30(m; 1H), 2.22(m; 1H), 1.94(m; 1H), 1.88(m; 1H), 1.86(m; 1H), 1.74(m; 1H), 1.64(m; 1H), 1.52(m; 1H), 1.50(m; 1H), 1.46(m; 2H), 1.43(m; 3H), 1.30(m; 1H), 1.28(m; 1H), 1.27(s; 3H), 1.09(s; 3H), 0.97(ddd; 9.7; 1H), 0.92(s; 3H), 0.91(d; 6.5; 3H), 0.84(d; 6.5; 3H), 0.76(s; 3H) ppm Compound (II) ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRAL DATA #max: 205 nm (# 3,250) INFRARED SPECTRAL DATA Recorded as a thin film on ZnSe: 3415, 2941, 2363, 1683, 1384, 1204, 1011 cm-l MASS SPECTRAL DATA Mass spectra were recorded on a JEOL SX-102A (electron impact, EI, 90eV) mass spectrometer. Exact mass measurements were performed at high resolution (HR-EI) using perfluorokerosene (PFK) as the internal standard.

HR EI-MS Found: 518.3284 Calculated for C30H4607: 518.3243 NMR SPECTRAL DATA NMR spectra were recorded in MeOH-d4 at 500 MHz (1H) or 125 MHz (13C). Chemical shifts are reported downfield from TMS (tetramethylsilane) and spectra were referenced to the solvent peak (3.31 ppm for 1H spectra and 49.1 ppm for 13C spectra).

13C NMR SPECTRA # 13C: 178.9(s), 178.1(s), 143.9(s), 119.3(d), 83.6(d), 77.9(d), 75.0(d), 60.9(d), 55.5(d), 53.7(s), 52.0(s), 48.3(d), 44.6(d), 43.5(s), 43.5(s), 37.6(t), 36.8(s), 34.1(t), 32.0(d), 31.9(t), 29.3(t), 27.2(t), 25.0(q), 23.4(q), 22.6(q), 22.1(q), 21.5(t), 21.0(t), 14.7(q), 10.7(q) ppm 1H NMR SPECTRA 6 H: 5.53(br s; 1H), 3.81(d; 9.7; 1H), 3.68(dd; 9.7, 9.5; 1H), 3.23(d; 9.5; 1H), 3.01(br d; 13.1; 1H), 2.74(m; 1H), 2.49(m; 1H), 2.08(dd; 11.5, 5.9; 1H), l.88(m; 1H), 1.86(m; 1H), 1.74(m; 1H), 1.66(m; 1H), 1.55(m; 2H), 1.53(m; 1H), 1.48(m; lH), 1.44(m; 2H), 1.43(m; lH), 1.38(m; 1H), 1.32(m; 1H), 1.26(m; 1H), 1.08(s; 3H), 1.05(s; 3H), 0.98(s; 3H), 0.98(m; 1H), 0.91(d; 6.1; 3H), 0.84(d; 6.1; 3H), 0.78(s; 3H) ppm The compounds of this invention have antimicrobial properties and are especially useful as antifungal agents against both filamentous fungi and yeasts. They are useful against organisms causing systemic human pathogenic mycotic infections such as Candida albicans, Candida tropicalis, Candida guillermondii, Candida glabrata, Cryptococcus neofromans, Aspergillus fumigatus, Candida pseudotropicalis, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Aspergillus flavus et al.

They are also useful against organisms causing superficial fungal infections such as Trichoderma sp. and Candida sp. These properties may be effectively utilized by administering compositions containing an antifungal amount of Compound I or II to an area, object or subject, on or in which fungi are to be controlled. Thus, compositions containing an antifungally effective amount of Compound I or Il and their use for the control of fungi are aspects of the present invention. An especially preferred aspect of the present invention are compositions in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and their use for the control of mycotic infections by administering a therapeutically effective amount of one or both of the compounds.

The compounds of the present invention are natural products produced from a Chrysosporium sp. (Hyphomycetes, Deuteromycotina) which was isolated from a goat dung sample collected near Caloca, Cantabria Province, Spain. The fungus, MF 6054 in the culture collection of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, has been deposited under the Budapest Treaty in the culture collection of the American Type Culture Collection on November 16, 1995 at 12301 Parklawn Drive, Rockville, Md. 20852 and assigned accession number ATCC 74353.

In agar culture, colonies of the fungus exhibit the following morphology: Colonies on oatmeal agar (Difco) at 25"C, 12 hr photoperiod attaining 30-31 mm in 14 days, with margin submerged, finely fimbriate, with floccose to velvety aerial mycelium, white to dull vinaceous, Pale Vinceous-Fawn (capitalized color names from Ridgway, R. 1912. Color Standards and Nomenclature. Published by the author.

Washington, D. C.), reverse dull green, Dull Citrine, Grayish Olive, exudates absent, odor faintly disagreeable.

Colonies on potato-dextrose agar (Difco) at 25 C, 12 hr photoperiod attaining 30-32 mm in 14 days, submerged to appressed at the margin, distinctly clearing starch in the medium 4-4 mm in advance of colony margin, with floccose to woolly aerial mycelium, azonate, translucent to white to vinaceous gray, Light Purplish Gray, Quaker Drab, reverse yellowish olive to vinaceous, zonate, exuding a strong vinaceous olive pigment into medium, with strong odor of Russula xerarnpelina, or old cooked crab meat.

Colonies on YM agar (Difco) at 25 C, 12 hr photoperiod attaining 15 mm in 14 days, margin even, submerged, waxy, without aerial mycelium, olivaceous yellow, Old Gold, Dull Citrine, same in reverse, exuding a dull yellowish olive pigment into the medium, odor strong and disagreeable as on potato-dextrose agar. No growth at 37"C.

Conidiophores absent. Conidia aleurosporic, formed abundantly on aerial and submerged hyphae, appearing as a white, dry pulverulence on aerial hyphae, terminal or on short lateral branches or swellings, or intercalary, occasionally in short chains, globose to pyriform, up to 15 Rm in diameter, thick-walled, with strongly rugose to subreticulate ornamentation, with ornamentation up to 2 ,um high, sometimes arising from and inflated subtending cell.

The mycelium consists of highly branched, simple septate hyphae.

The combination of terminal, lateral and intercalary, strongly ornamented aleurospores produced directly on brightly colored vegetative mycelium is characteristic of the hyphomycete genus Chrysospor iun. However, MF6054 cannot be assigned definitively to any of the Chrysosporium species described by Carmichael (J. W.

Carmichael. 1962. Chlysosporium and some other aleurosporic hyphomycetes. Canadian Journal of Botany 40: 1137-1173) or by Van Oorschot (C. A. N. Van Oorschot. 1980. A revision of Chysosporiun and allied genera. CBS Studies in Mycology 20:1-89). Hence we to refer MF6054 simply as Chrysosporium sp.

Although the invention is discussed principally with respect to the specific strain, it is well known in the art that the properties of microorganisms can be varied naturally and artificially. Thus, all strains of the sterile fungus MF 6054, ATCC 74353 including varieties and mutants, whether obtained by natural selection, produced by the action of mutating agents such as ionizing radiation or ultraviolet irradiation, or by the action of chemical mutagens such as nitrosoguanidine, are contemplated to be within the scope of this invention.

The production of Compounds I and II may be carried out by cultivating the sterile fungus MF 6054, ATCC 74353 in a suitable nutrient medium under conditions described herein until a substantial amount of antifungal activity is detected in the fermentation broth, harvesting by extracting the active components from the mycelial growth with a suitable solvent, concentrating the solution containing the desired component, then subjecting the concentrated material to chromatographic separation to isolate Compounds I and II from other metabolites also present in the cultivation medium.

Broadly, the sources of carbon include glucose, fructose, mannose, maltose, galactose, mannitol and glycerol, other sugars and sugar alcohols, starches and other carbohydrates, or carbohydrate derivatives such as dextran, cerelose, as well as complex nutrients such as oat flour, corn meal, millet, corn and the like. The exact quantity of the carbon source which is utilized in the medium will depend, in part, upon the other ingredients in the medium, but it is usually found that an amount of carbohydrate between 0.5 and 15 percent by weight of the medium is satisfactory. These carbon sources can be used individually or several such carbon sources may be combined in the same medium.

Certain carbon sources are preferred as hereinafter set forth.

The sources of nitrogen include amino acids such as glycine, arginine, threonine, methionine and the like, ammonium salt, as well as complex sources such as yeast hydrolysates, yeast autolysates, yeast cells, tomato paste, soybean meal, casein hydrolysates, yeast extract, corn steep liquors, distillers solubles, cottonseed meal, meat extract, and the like. The vanous sources of nitrogen can be used alone or in combination in amounts ranging from 0.05 to 5 percent by weight of the medium.

Among the nutrient inorganic salts, which can be incorporated in the culture media are the customary salts capable of yielding sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphate, sulfate, chloride, carbonate, and like ions. Also included are trace metals such as cobalt, manganese, iron, molybdenum, zinc, cadmium, and the like.

Representative suitable solid and liquid production media may be seen in the tables which follow. Also included is a representative seed medium. These, however, are merely illustrative of the wide variety of media which may be employed and are not intended to be limiting.

TABLE 1 KF SEED MEDIUM Trace Element Mix per liter per liter Corn Steep Liquor 5 g FeSO47H20 1 g Tomato Paste 40 g MnSO4#4H2O 1 g Oat flour 10 g CuCl2#2H2O 25 mg Glucose 10 g CaC12 100 mg Trace Element Mix 10 ml H3BO3 56 mg (NH4)6Mo7O24#4H2O 19 mg pH = 6.8 ZnSO4#7H2O 200 mg TABLE 2 PRODUCTION MEDIUM CYS80 Component per liter Sucrose 80 g Corn Meal 50 g (yellow) Yeast Extract 1 g No pH adjustment TABLE 3 PRODUCTION MEDIUM STP Component per liter Sucrose 75 g Tomato Paste 10 g Malt Extract 5 g (NH4)2SO4 1 g Soy Flour 1 g KH2PO4 9 g pH adjusted to 7.0 with NaOH before autoclaving Of the foregoing media, the STP medium, was found to give the best yield of Compounds I and II.In the production of the compounds, generally, the culture is first grown in a seed medium and the culture growth then used to inoculate a production medium. The production medium may be a solid medium or a liquid medium.

The Chrysosporium sp. culture was maintained in sterile soil and stored at 40C until ready for use. The seed culture was inoculated by aseptically transferring a small amount of the preserved soil into a 250 ml Erlenmeyer flask containing 50 mls of seed medium of the following composition (in g/liter); corn steep liquor, 5.0; tomato paste, 40.0; oat flour, 10.0; glucose, 10.0; and trace elements solution, 10 mls/liter (consisting of, in g/liter: FeSO4.7H2O, 1.0; MnSO4 4H20, 1.0; CuCl22H2O, 0.025; CaCl22H2O, 0.1; H3BO3, 0.056; (NH4)6MoO244H20, 0.019; ZnSO47H20, 0.2; dissolved in 0.6 N HCI).

Seed medium was prepared with distilled water, the pH was adjusted to 6.8 by adding NaOH and the medium dispensed into 250 ml Erlenmeyer flasks and capped with cotton plugs before being autoclaved at 121('C for 20 minutes. The seed culture was incubated at 25 C on a gyrotory shaker (220 rpm, 5.1 cm throw) for 118 hours prior to the inoculation of fermentation flasks.

The STP production medium was prepared using distilled water; 50 mls medium was dispensed into 250 ml Erlenmeyer flasks that were capped with cotton plugs before being autoclaved at 121oC for 20 minutes. Production flasks were inoculated with 2.0 mls vegetative seed growth and were incubated at 250C, on a gyrotory shaker (220 rpm, 5.1 cm throw) for 15 days. After the incubation period, each production flask was homogenized, extracted with 40.0 mis of methanol, shaken for 30 minutes, pooled and delivered for the isolation of active compounds.

The usefulness of Compounds I and II as antifungal agents, especially as antimycotic agents, may be demonstrated with Compound I or II in a broth microdilution assay for the determination of minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) and minimum fungicidal concentration (MFC) against fungi. In such assay against a panel of fungi selected for their resistance/susceptibility to known compounds, animal virulence, source and clinical importance, Compounds I or II are found to be effective at concentrations comparable to an established antifungal agent, amphotericin B.

In the microbroth dilution assay, microorganisms were selected by streaking a yeast culture on Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA) incubating for 24-4R hours at 35-37"C, thereafter selected 3 to 5 characteristic colonies and transferring to a fresh plate and incubating under similar conditions. From the regrowth, 3 to 5 colonies were selected and suspended in 10 milliliters of YM broth (Difco) and incubated for 4 hours at 35-370C shaking at 225 rpm. The 4 hour broth cultures were adjusted optically to 86% transmission resulting in a concentration of 1-5 X 106 cfu/ml which was further diluted 1:100 in YNBD (yeast nitrogen base with 1 % dextrose) to obtain a concentration of 1-5 X 104 cfu/ml for use as inocula.

The test compounds, Compounds I and II, were dissolved at 512 lg/ml in 10% DMSO and diluted 2X into the first well to achieve a concentration of 256 Rg/ml at 5% DMSO in the first well. Compounds are subsequently serially diluted 2X and cell suspension is added to each well resulting in an additional 2X dilution of compound. 75 ,ul of said solution is delivered to each well in column 1 of a 96-well, U-bottomed microtiter plate. The compounds in column 1 were then serially diluted two-fold to yield concentrations from 128 Rg/ml to 0.06 g/ml.

Amphotericin B, the control compound, was prepared as a stock solution of 512 Rg/ml in 10% DMSO and 75 ,ul of said solution delivered to column 1 of a 96-well, U-bottomed microtiter plate. The compounds in column 1 were then serially diluted two-fold to yield concentrations from 128 Rg/ml to 0.06 ,ug/ml.

The plates containing the diluted compounds were then inoculated with 75 Ill/well of the appropriate microorganism and incubated for 48 hours at 35-37 C with MIC (minimum inhibitory concentration) determinations carried out after 24 hours of incubation (except Cryptococcus strains which are read at 48 hours). Growth and sterility controls for each organism and sterility checks for the compounds also were carried out.

After recording MICs at 24 hours, the microtiter plates were shaken gently to resuspend the cells. A 1.5 ,ul sample was transferred from each well of the 96-well microtiter plate to a single reservoir inoculum plate containing SDA. The inoculated SDA and corresponding microtiter plates were incubated for 24 hours at 3537 C. For Cryptococcus neoformans, SDA plates were inoculated at 48 hours after recording MICs and incubated 48 hours before reading the MFC. MFC is the lowest concentration of compound at which either no growth or growth of < 4 colonies occur.

Minimum Fungicidal Concentration (MFC) Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) lug/ml COMPOUND I

Strain MIC MFC Candida albicans (MY1055) 8 8 Candida glabrata (MY1381) 8 8 Candida parapsilosis MY 1010 4 4 Candida pseudotropicalis MY2099) 8 8 Candida tropicalis (MY 1124) 8 8 Candida albicans (CLY539) 8 16 Candida albicans (CA2) 8 8 Candida tropicalis (MY1012) 8 4 Candida guillermondii (MY1019) 16 16 Cryptococcus neoformans 8 8 (MY2062) Saccharomyces cerevisiae (MY2141) 8 4 Saccharomyces cerevisiae (MY2141) 8 4 Aspergillus fumigatus (MY4839) 8 Aspergillus fumigatus (MY5668) 16 COMPOUND II

Strain MIC MFC Candida albicans (MY1055) 8 8 Candida glabrata (MY1381) 8 8 Candida parapsilosis (MY1010) 32 Candida pseudotropicalis (MY2099) 4 4 Candida tropicalis MY 1124 8 8 Candida albicans CLY539 8 8 Candida albicans (CA2 8 8 Candida tropicalis (MY1012) 4 8 Candida guillermondii (MY1019) > 128 > 128 Cryprococcus neoformans 4 4 (MY2061) Cryptococcus neoformans 4 4 (MY2062) Saccharomyces cercvisiae (MY2140) 4 4 Saccharomyces cerevisiae (MY2141) 4 4 Aspergillus fumigates (MY4839) 8 Aspergillus fumigatus (MY5668) > 128 Compounds I and II are also useful for inhibiting the growth of filamentous fungi. Such use may be illustrated in the following tests with Aspergillus flavus, Fusarium oxysporum, Ustilago eae and the like.

Inocula for filamentous fungi are prepared by scraping the surface of stock plates maintained on potato dextrose agar with a moistened sterile dacron swab. The spores and mycelia are then suspended in 10 milliliters of sterile potato dextrose broth and adjusted to 70 percent transmission at 660 nm.

The samples to be tested for production of antifungal agent are applied directly to the agar plates as methanol solutions. When the sample to be tested is crude broth, it may be centrifuged prior to application. The assay plates are then incubated at either 28 C or 37 C for 24 hours. Following incubation, the inhibition zones are measured.

Growths are also noted as to appearance. Compounds I and II are seen to effectively inhibit growth of the fungal organisms.

In view of the broad spectrum of activity, the products of the present invention either singly or as a mixture are adaptable to being utilized in various applications of antifungal compositions. In such case, compounds may be admixed with a biologically inert carrier, generally with the aid of a surface active dispersing agent, the nature of which would vary depending on whether the use is for the control of pathogens infecting man or animals, or for control of fungi in agriculture such as in soil or plant parts, or for the control of fungi in inanimate objects.

In compositions for medical applications, the compounds may be admixed with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, the nature of which will depend on whether the composition is to be topical, parenteral or oral.

If said application is to be topical, the drug may be formulated in conventional creams and ointments such as white petrolatum, anhydrous lanolin, cetyl alcohol, cold cream, glyceryl monostearate, rose water and the like.

For parenteral applications, the compounds may be formulated in conventional parenteral solutions such as 0.85 percent sodium chloride or 5 percent dextrose in water, or other pharmaceutically acceptable compositions.

Compositions for oral administration may be prepared by mixing the component drugs with any of the usual pharmaceutical media, including for liquid preparations, liquid carriers such as water, glycols, oils, alcohols, and the like; and for solid preparations such as capsules and tablets, solid carriers such as starches, sugars, kaolin, ethyl cellulose, surface active dispersing agents, generally with lubricants such as calcium stearate, together with binders, disintegrating agents and the like.

These compositions are then administered in amounts sufficient to obtain the desired antifungal effect. For medical applications, the method comprises administering to a subject in need of treatment a therapeutically effective antifungal amount of the compounds. The appropriate dose will vary depending on age, severity, body weight and other conditions. For topical application, the compositions are applied directly to the area where control is desired.

For internal administration, the composition may be applied by injection or may be administered orally.

For non-medical application, the product of the present invention, either alone or as a mixture, may be employed in compositions in an inert carrier which included finely divided dry or liquid diluents, extenders, fillers, conditioners and excipients, including various clays, diatomaceous earth, talc, and the like or water and various organic liquids such as lower alkanols, such as ethanol and isopropanol, or kerosene, benzene, toluene and other petroleum distillate fractions or mixtures thereof.

The following example illustrates the invention but is not to be construed as limiting the invention disclosed herein.

EXAMPLE I

ISOLATION A culture of the fungus, assigned as Chrysosporium sp., was received as a MeOH-extracted whole broth sample (760 ml wbe).

The mixture was filtered in order to remove the mycelia and the filtrate was concentrated in vacuo to remove the MeOH. The remaining aqueous suspension was acidified to pH 4 with 2N HCI and extracted with an equal volume of EtOAc. A portion of the organic layer (352 mi wbe; 0.91 g) was subjected to gradient reversed phase HPLC [Zorbax-RXC8 column; 9.4 X 250 mm; ambient temperature, 2 ml/min]: 0-30 min:25%ACN/75%H2O, with 0.1% TFA 90%ACN/10%H2O, with 0.1% TFA (v/v) and 30-45 min: 90%ACN/10%H2O, with 0.1% TFA (v/v) This procedure resulted in the isolation of 53.5 mg of 90% pure Compound I and 17.8 mg of 85% pure Compound II.The components were further purified by reversed phase HPLC [Zorbax RXCS column; 9.4 X 250 mm; ambient temperature, 2 ml/min] employing 80% MeOH/20% H2O, with 0.1 % TFA (v/v) as the mobile phase. This final purification step resulted in the production of 23.5 mg of Compound I and 8.2 mg of Compound n.

Compounds I and fl had the spectral properties previously described.

The following examples illustrate representative compositions containing Compound I or U.

EXAMPLE A 1000 compressed tablets each containing 500 milligrams of Compound I or II are prepared from the following formulation: Grams Compound I or 11 500 Starch 750 Dibasic calcium phosphate hydrous 5000 Calcium stearate 2.5 The finely powdered ingredients are mixed well and granulated with 10 percent starch paste. The granulation is dried and compressed into tablets.

EXAMPLE B 1000 hard gelatin capsules, each containing 500 milligrams of Compound I or II are prepared from the following formulation: Compound I or I1 500 Starch 250 Lactose 750 Talc 250 Calcium stearate 10 A uniform mixture of the ingredients is prepared by blending and used to fill two-piece hard gelatin capsules.

EXAMPLE C 250 milliliters of an injectible solution are prepared by conventional procedures from the following formulation: Dextrose 12.5 grams Water 250 milliliters Compound I or U 400 milligrams The ingredients are blended and thereafter sterilized for use.

EXAMPLE D An ointment suitable for topical application may be prepared by intimately dispersing 13 mg of Compound I or II in 1 g of commercially available polyethylene/hydrocarbon gel.

EXAMPLE E An aerosol composition may be prepared having the following formulation (per canister): Compound I or II 24 mg Lecithin NF, liquid concentrate 1.2 mg Trichlorofluoromethane 4.025 g Dichlorodefluoromethane 12.15 g

Claims (14)

1. WHAT IS CLAIMED IS: 1. A substantially pure compound having the structure:
2. 2. A substantially pure compound having the structure:
3. 3. An antifungal composition comprising an antifungal amount of the compound of Claim 1 in admixture with a biologically inert carrier or diluent.
4. 4. A composition according to Claim 3 wherein the carrier is a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
5. 5. A method for controlling fungal growth which comprises administering to the site where growth is to be controlled, an effective amount of the compound of Claim 1.
6. 6. A method for combatting fungal infections in mammals which comprises administering to a region of the animal afflicted with said fungi a therapeutically effective amount of the compound of Claim 1.
7. 7. A process for producing the compound of Claim 1 which comprises aerobically cultivating a culture of ATCC 74353 in a nutrient medium containing assimilable sources of carbon and nitrogen and isolating said compound therefrom.
8. 8. A biologically pure culture of fungus (ATCC 74353 capable of producing the compound of Claim I in recoverable amounts.
9. 9. An antifungal composition comprising an antifungal amount of the compound of Claim 2 in admixture with a biologically inert carrier or diluent.
10. 10. A composition according to Claim 9 in which the carrier is a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
11. I I. A method for controlling fungal growth which comprises administering to the site where growth is to be controlled, an antifungally effective amount of a compound of Claim 2.
12. 12. A method for combatting fungi infections in mammals which comprises administering to a region of the animal afflicted with said fungi a therapeutically effective amount of the compound of Claim 2.
13. 13. A process for producing the compound of Claim 2 which comprises aerobically cultivating a culture of ATCC 74353 in a nutrient medium containing assimilable sources of carbon and nitrogen and isolating said compound therefrom.
14. 14. A biologically pure culture of fungus (ATCC 74353 capable of producing the compound of Claim 2 in recoverable amounts.