Two brominated tyrosine metabolites, fistularin 3 [1] and a new compound 11-ketofistularin 3 [2] have been isolated from a marine sponge, Aplysina archeri. Their structures were determined on the basis of spectral data. Both compounds inhibited the growth of feline leukemia virus.
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Gunasekera et al. (1992) studied this question.