Synonyms: GS-2876 | methacycline | methylenecycline | Physiomycine® | Rondomycin®
metacycline is an approved drug (France)
Compound class:
Synthetic organic
Comment: Metacycline is a tetracycline antibacterial compound, derived from oxytetracycline [1]. Note that the structure shown here matches the CAS-assigned structure. The PubChem link, provided in the table below, is to their standardized chemical structure (CID 54675785), although this is not an exact structural match.
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References |
1. Blackwood RK, Beereboom JJ, Rennhard HH, von Wittenau MS, Stephens CR. (1961)
6-methylenetetracyclines. I. A new class of tetracycline antibiotics. J Amer chem Soc, 83 (12): 2773-2775. DOI: 10.1021/ja01473a043 |
2. Chopra I, Hawkey PM, Hinton M. (1992)
Tetracyclines, molecular and clinical aspects. J Antimicrob Chemother, 29 (3): 245-77. [PMID:1592696] |
3. Chopra I, Roberts M. (2001)
Tetracycline antibiotics: mode of action, applications, molecular biology, and epidemiology of bacterial resistance. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev, 65 (2): 232-60 ; second page, table of contents. [PMID:11381101] |