transcription complex DNA

Ontology CARD's Antibiotic Resistance Ontology
Accession ARO:3000741
DefinitionDNA in the transcriptional complex is partially unwound, allowing antibiotics to target exposed bases and prevent DNA transcription.
Drug Classpeptide antibiotic, nonribosomal peptide antibiotics, glycopeptide antibiotic, nitrofuran antibiotic
Classification15 ontology terms | Show
Parent Term(s)3 ontology terms | Show
+ targeted_by actinomycin
+ targeted_by_antibiotic dactinomycin [Antibiotic]
+ deoxyribonucleic acid
Publications

Sobell HM. 1985. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 82(16): 5328-5331. Actinomycin and DNA transcription. (PMID 2410919)

GOLDBERG IH, et al. 1962. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 48: 2094-2101. Basis of actinomycin action. I. DNA binding and inhibition of RNA-polymerase synthetic reactions by actinomycin. (PMID 13948669)

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