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... > Organic Chemicals > Lactones > Polyketides > Macrolides > Oligomycins > Rutamycin
... > Polycyclic Compounds > Macrocyclic Compounds > Polyketides > Macrolides > Oligomycins > Rutamycin

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Rutamycin  

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  • Oligomycin D

Scope note

  • A macrolide antibiotic of the oligomycin group, obtained from Streptomyces rutgersensis. It is used in cytochemistry as a tool to inhibit various ATPases and to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation from electron transport and also clinically as an antifungal agent.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under OLIGOMYCINS 1982-90; was see under ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIFUNGAL 1975-81

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012427

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