In the course of our screening program for regulators of the expression of GRP78 molecular chaperone, JBIR-04 (1) and -05 (2) were isolated from Streptomyces violaceoniger 4541-SVS3 as congeners of prunustatin A (3). The structures of 1 and 2 were determined by the analyses of the spectroscopic data. These compounds mainly consist of an amino acid and amino acid derived alpha-hydroxy acid residues. 1 and 2 inhibited the expression of GRP78 induced by 2-deoxyglucose in human fibrosarcoma HT1080 cells, but their activities were highly reduced compared with those of 3 and SW-163A.