Antibiotic
nogalamycin
Subclass of:
Daunorubicin
Definitions related to nogalamycin:
  • An anthracycline antineoplastic antibiotic isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces nogalater. Nogalamycin intercalates into DNA and interacts with topoisomerase I, thereby inhibiting DNA replication and repair and RNA and protein synthesis. (NCI04)
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • An anthrocycline from a Streptomyces nogalater variant. It is a cytolytic antineoplastic that inhibits DNA-dependent RNA synthesis by binding to DNA.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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