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Natamycin is a macrolide antibiotic that has formula C33H47NO13, produced by several Streptomyces species including Streptomyces natalensis. It exhibits broad spectrum antifungal activity and used in eye drops, and as a food preservative, and also as a postharvest biofungicide for citrus and other fruit crops. It has a role as an antimicrobial food preservative, a bacterial metabolite, an apoptosis inducer, an ophthalmology drug and an antifungal agrochemical. It is an antibiotic antifungal drug, a macrolide antibiotic, a polyene antibiotic, an epoxide, a dicarboxylic acid monoester and a monosaccharide derivative.