Fusafungine also known as fusafungin, is an active agent used in antibiotic

Antibiotic

An antibacterial is a compound or substance that kills or slows down the growth of bacteria.The term is often used synonymously with the term antibiotic; today, however, with increased knowledge of the causative agents of various infectious diseases, antibiotic has come to denote a broader range of...

s for treatment of nasal and throat infection. It also possesses anti-inflammatory

Anti-inflammatory

Anti-inflammatory refers to the property of a substance or treatment that reduces inflammation. Anti-inflammatory drugs make up about half of analgesics, remedying pain by reducing inflammation as opposed to opioids, which affect the central nervous system....

 properties. Fusafungine is a mixture of enniatin

Enniatin

Enniatins are a class of organic chemical compounds found in Fusarium fungi. They appear in nature as mixtures of cyclic depsipeptides. The main variants are enniatin A, A1, B and B1 together with minor amounts of enniatin C, D, E and F....

 cyclohexadepsipeptides

Depsipeptide

A depsipeptide is a peptide in which one or more of the amide bonds are replaced by ester bonds.Depsipeptides have often been used in research to probe the importance of hydrogen bond networks in protein folding kinetics and thermodynamics. They are also found in nature as natural products...

 made up of alternating D-α-hydroxyvaleric acid and L-N-methylamino acid residues, produced by the ascomycete

Ascomycota

The Ascomycota are a Division/Phylum of the kingdom Fungi, and subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the Sac fungi. They are the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species...

 Fusarium lateritium, and marketed by Servier under the trade names Locabiotal, Bioparox, and Locabiosol.