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antimycin

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an`ti`my´cin    (ăn`tĭ`mī´sĭn)
n.1.one of several antibiotic substances produced by several species of Streptomyces, active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A1 (C28H40N2O9) and antimycin A3 (C26H36N2O9). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi.
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Noun1.antimycin - a crystalline antibiotic active against various fungi
antibiotic, antibiotic drug - a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs"


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Researchers affiliated with the National Cancer Institute and other groups have extracted compounds from marine sponges and corals that inhibit the growth of tumor cells, and a group from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has isolated marine bacteria closely related to the terrestrial organisms from which antimycin antibiotics were originally derived.
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In malignant cells, the results demonstrated that rhIGFBP-3 enhanced apoptosis induced by ceramide, antimycin A and the UV-mimetic 4 NQO between 50-200%.
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It is generally accepted that the mitochondrion is the major source of intracellular ROS, which is enhanced by electron transport inhibitors such as ischemiareperfusion, rotenone, antimycin A, and diphenyleneiodonium (46-48).
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