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Protoanemonin is an antibiotic substance produced mainly by species of Ranunculaceae. Reports of its presence are in the following references: Boas (1934), Zechner and Wohlmuth (1954), Kipping (1935), Shearer (1938), Baer et al. (1946), Herz et al. (1951), Bernard and Metzger (1960) and Tashkov et al. (1961).
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Caltrider, P.G. (1967). Protoanemonin. In: Gottlieb, D., Shaw, P.D. (eds) Mechanism of Action. Antibiotics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46051-7_55
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