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THE mycelium of Streptomyces pilosus grown on a soy-bean meal containing medium produces several orange or red pigments. The principal one, which we propose to call ‘piloquinone’, crystallizes easily from a petrol ether or ether extract of the dried mycelium.
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JOHNSON, B., COHEN, P., POLONSKY, J. et al. Piloquinone: a New Phenanthrene-o-Quinone isolated from the Mycelium of Streptomyces pilosus. Nature 199, 285–286 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199285a0
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