The invention provides a method for preparing
antifungal cyclic lipopeptide echinocandin B. The method comprises the following steps: 1) performing
solid-liquid separation on an ECB (
Echinocandin)
fermentation broth; 2) enriching with a macroporous adsorption resin ADS-17 or X-5; 3) eluting the macroporous adsorption resin with hot absolute methyl
alcohol, and combining eluants; 4) concentrating the eluants, adding a
sodium chloride solution, stirring, cooling for
crystal separation, and
drying crude ECB filter cakes; 5) filtering the crude ECB filter cakes with
methanol, and treating filtratewith a reverse phase resin column XT30; 6) concentrating the reverse phase resin column XT30 eluant, adding the
sodium chloride solution, stirring, cooling for
crystal separation, and
drying ECB filter cakes; 7) collecting a dried ECB product. By adopting the method, the problems that byproducts are hard to elute and solvents are wasted are simply and effectively solved.
Solid-liquid separation of water-containing ECB can be effectively completed, and product degradation is remarkably reduced. The method is simple and feasible and is applicable to industrial production, and the final purity of the
echinocandin B is improved to 99% or greater.