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rutamycin (medicine)


rutamycin
<chemical> A macrolide antibiotic of the oligomycin group, obtained from streptomyces rutgersensis. It is used in cytochemistry as a tool to inhibit various atpases and to uncouple oxidative phosphorylation from electron transport and also clinically as an antifungal agent.

Pharmacological action: antibiotics, antifungal, antibiotics, macrolide, enzyme inhibitors, uncoupling agents.

Chemical name: Oligomycin A, 26-demethyl-


Vanbrughian (iou)



Vanbrughian adjective. M20.
[from Vanbrugh (see below) + -IAN.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the architecture, landscaping, or plays of Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726).