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Nucleic Acids, Nucleotides, and Nucleosides > Nucleosides > Ribonucleosides > Toyocamycin
Carbohydrates > Glycosides > Nucleosides > Ribonucleosides > Toyocamycin

Preferred term

Toyocamycin  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Deazacyanoadenosine
  • Toyokamycin

Note

  • an antineoplastic antibiotic & antimetabolite

Scope note

  • 4-Amino-5-cyano-7-(D-ribofuranosyl)-7H- pyrrolo(2,3-d)pyrimidine. Antibiotic antimetabolite isolated from Streptomyces toyocaensis cultures. It is an analog of adenosine, blocks RNA synthesis and ribosome function, and is used mainly as a tool in biochemistry.

History note

  • 91(75); was see under ANTIBIOTICS, AMINOGLYCOSIDE 1981-90; was see under ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC 1975-80

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014127

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