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Calcimycin

"Calcimycin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

An ionophorous, polyether antibiotic from Streptomyces chartreusensis. It binds and transports CALCIUM and other divalent cations across membranes and uncouples oxidative phosphorylation while inhibiting ATPase of rat liver mitochondria. The substance is used mostly as a biochemical tool to study the role of divalent cations in various biological systems.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Calcimycin" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Calcimycin" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 60 publications over 21 distinct years, with a maximum of 9 publications in 1994
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