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Polycyclic Compounds > Macrocyclic Compounds > Peptides, Cyclic > Echinocandins
Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Peptides > Peptides, Cyclic > Echinocandins

Preferred term

Echinocandins  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Echinocandin

Scope note

  • Cyclic hexapeptides of proline-ornithine-threonine-proline-threonine-serine. The cyclization with a single non-peptide bond can lead them to be incorrectly called DEPSIPEPTIDES, but the echinocandins lack ester links. Antifungal activity is via inhibition of 1,3-beta-glucan synthase production of BETA-GLUCANS.

History note

  • 2008

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D054714

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