Erythromycin

"Erythromycin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A bacteriostatic antibiotic macrolide produced by Streptomyces erythreus. Erythromycin A is considered its major active component. In sensitive organisms, it inhibits protein synthesis by binding to 50S ribosomal subunits. This binding process inhibits peptidyl transferase activity and interferes with translocation of amino acids during translation and assembly of proteins.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Erythromycin" by people in this website by year, and whether "Erythromycin" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 17 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2000
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