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Organic Chemicals > Lactones > Venturicidins

Preferred term

Venturicidins  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • uncoupling agents & antifungal antibiotics; from Streptomyces

Scope note

  • Toxic substances isolated from various strains of Streptomyces. They are 20-membered macrolides that inhibit oxidative phosphorylation and mitochondrial ATPases. Venturicidins A and B are glycosides. Used mainly as tools in the study of mitochondrial function.

History note

  • 91(77); was see under LACTONES 1977-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014698

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