Antibiotic
Viomycin
A cyclic polypeptide isolated from Streptomyces puniceus that is used to treat tuberculosis. Viomycin acts by blocking bacterial ribosomal translocation.
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Sep 14, 2010 ... Viomycin is a tuberactinomycin antibiotic that was used to treat Mycobacterium tuberculosis until it was replaced by the less toxic ...
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Viomycin and capreomycin are members of the tuberactinomycin family of antituberculosis drugs. As with many antibacterial drugs, resistance to the ...
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Apr 27, 2020 ... Viomycin and the related antibiotic capreomycin have been the main drugs effective against tuberculosis, inhibiting the ribosomes in the ...
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Jan 11, 2016 ... Viomycin is a tuberactinomycin antibiotic essential for treating multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. It inhibits bacterial protein synthesis ...
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Feb 14, 2010 ... In addition to its important role in the treatment of tuberculosis, viomycin has been pivotal in biochemical studies of protein synthesis.
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Jun 7, 2019 ... Viomycin is the first discovered member of the tuberactinomycin class of bacterial protein synthesis inhibiting antibiotics (Ehrlich et al., ...
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Oct 1, 1978 ... THE basic peptide antibiotic viomycin inhibits prokaryotic protein biosynthesis1,2, and seems to bind at least to the small ribosomal ...
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Feb 22, 2017 ... ChEBI Name, viomycin. ChEBI ID, CHEBI:15782. Definition, A cyclic peptide antibiotic produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces puniceus, ...
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Capreomycin and viomycin are also protein synthesis inhibitors, and appear to bind at the interface between the 30S and 50S subunits. ... Viomycin and capreomycin ...
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Sep 15, 2011 ... ABSTRACT Capreomycin and the structurally similar compound viomycin are cyclic peptide antibiotics which are particularly active against ...