Kasugamycin Hydrochloride is a salt form a Kasugamycin, is a broad-spectrum antibacterial and antifungal aminoglycoside originally isolated in 1965 from Streptomyces kasugaensis found near the Kasuga shrine in Japan. It was discovered by Hamao Umezawa, who also discovered kanamycin and bleomycin. This natural product inhibits protein synthesis and is used against yeast and pathogenic fungi such as M. grisea. Kasugamycin is also an chitinase 1 inhibitor used in pulmonary fibrosis research.
Kasugamycin HCl is freely soluble in aqueous solution.
