Distamycins
"Distamycins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Oligopeptide antibiotics from Streptomyces distallicus. Their binding to DNA inhibits synthesis of nucleic acids.
| Descriptor ID |
D004214
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.140
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Churchill ME, Hayes JJ, Tullius TD. Detection of drug binding to DNA by hydroxyl radical footprinting. Relationship of distamycin binding sites to DNA structure and positioned nucleosomes on 5S RNA genes of Xenopus. Biochemistry. 1990 Jun 26; 29(25):6043-50.