antimycin

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun antimycin has 1 sense

antimycin(n = noun.artifact) Array - a crystalline antibiotic active against various fungi; Array

CIDE DICTIONARY

antimycin, n.

one of several antibiotic substances produced by several species of Streptomyces, active against various fungi. They are used only experimentally, not in medicine. The two best-known antimycins are antimycin A₁ (C28H40N2O9) and antimycin A₃ (C26H36N2O9). They are notable for their mechanism of action, interference with the proton pumping mechanism of fungi. [WordNet 1.5]