Dehydroaltenusin is a selective eukaryotic DNApolymerase α inhibitor and a type of antibiotic produced by a fungus (IC50: 0.68 μM). Dehydroaltenusin inhibits mammalian pol α activity.
Epolactaene is a neuritogenic compound in human neuroblastoma cells which selectively inhibit the activities of mammalian DNApolymerases and human DNA topoisomerase II.