Medical Definition of Tunicamycin
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Nucleoside antibiotics from Streptomyces lysosuperificus that act in eukaryotic cells to inhibit N glycosylation.
Tunicamycin inhibits the first step in synthesis of the dolichol linked oligosaccharide, by preventing the addition of N acetylglucosamine to dolichol phosphate.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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