Mode of Action: Novobiocin is used to study heat shock protein inhibition 1 and to produce positively supercoiled plasmid DNA. It is an inhibitor of bacterial DNA gyrase and eukaryotic DNA topoisomerase. It also is an inhibitor of retrovirus RNA-dependent DNA-polymerase.
Antimicrobial spectrum: Gram-positive bacterial.
PubChem Chemical ID: 23663939
Features
- Synomyms: Albamycin (TN); Novobiocin Sodium
- CAS#: 1476-53-5
- Molecular Formula: C31H35N2NaO11
- Molecular Weight: 634.6 g/mol