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chartreusin

chartreusin

[shär′trü·zən]
(microbiology)
C18H18O18 Crystalline, greenish-yellow antibiotic produced by a strain of Streptomyces chartreusis; active against gram-positive microorganisms, acid-fast bacilli, and phage of Staphylococcus pyogenes.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
Chartreusin is a potent antitumor agent with a mixed polyketide-carbohydrate structure produced by Streptomyces chartreusis (68).
Biosynthesis of the antitumor agent chartreusin involves the oxidative rearrangement of an anthracyclic polyketide.
An in silico based comparison of drug interactions in wild and mutant human [beta]-tubulin through doclqing studies
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