Bioactivity | Chromomycin A3 is an aureolic acid-type antitumor antibiotic. Chromomycin A3 forms dimeric complexes with divalent cations, such as Mg2+, which strongly binds to the GC rich sequence of DNA to inhibit DNA replication and transcription. Chromomycin A3 has a variety of utilities as a staining agent for human sperm chromatin, autophagy inducing agent, and apoptosis inhibitor[1]. | |||||||||
Name | Chromomycin A3 | |||||||||
CAS | 7059-24-7 | |||||||||
Formula | C57H82O26 | |||||||||
Molar Mass | 1183.25 | |||||||||
Transport | Room temperature in continental US; may vary elsewhere. | |||||||||
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