"Tunicamycin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An N-acetylglycosamine containing antiviral antibiotic obtained from Streptomyces lysosuperificus. It is also active against some bacteria and fungi, because it inhibits the glucosylation of proteins. Tunicamycin is used as tool in the study of microbial biosynthetic mechanisms.
| Descriptor ID |
D014415
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.742.680.725 D13.570.685.725
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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