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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Membrane Proteins > Pore Forming Cytotoxic Proteins > Gramicidin
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Peptides > Peptides, Cyclic > Tyrothricin > Gramicidin
Polycyclic Compounds > Macrocyclic Compounds > Peptides, Cyclic > Tyrothricin > Gramicidin

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Gramicidin  

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Entry terms

  • Gramicidins

Scope note

  • A group of peptide antibiotics from BACILLUS brevis. Gramicidin C or S is a cyclic, ten-amino acid polypeptide and gramicidins A, B, D are linear. Gramicidin is one of the two principal components of TYROTHRICIN.

History note

  • 96; was GRAMICIDINS 1963-95 (see under TYROTHRICIN 1963-73)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006096

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