tunicamycin

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noun

An enzyme-inhibiting antibiotic, used as an experimental tool in biology.

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Meanings

nountunicamycin (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAn enzyme-inhibiting antibiotic, used as an experimental tool in biology.

    The glycosylation inhibitor tunicamycin, which increases the level of unfolded proteins, also induced P hsp-4 ::GFP expression.

    2009 January 30, Lori L. Anderson et al., “Survival from Hypoxia in C. elegans by Inactivation of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases”, in Science
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