A novel 15-methoxyansamitocin P-3 [2], in company with three known maytansinoids 1, 3, and 4, was isolated for the first time from two Japanese mosses, Isothecium subdiversiforme and Thamnobryum sandei. All are potent cytotoxic compounds.
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Sakai et al. (1988) studied this question.