tunicamycin

English

Noun

tunicamycin (uncountable)

1. An enzyme-inhibiting antibiotic, used as an experimental tool in biology.
   • 2009 January 30, Lori L. Anderson et al., “Survival from Hypoxia in C. elegans by Inactivation of Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases”, in Science‎^[1]:

     The glycosylation inhibitor tunicamycin, which increases the level of unfolded proteins, also induced P hsp-4 ::GFP expression.