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Medical Definition of Tunicamycin

1. 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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