carubicin

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-012323",
  "term": "carubicin",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "An anthracycline antineoplastic antibiotic isolated from the bacterium Actinomadura carminata. Carubicin intercalates into DNA and interacts with topoisomerase II, thereby inhibiting DNA replication and repair and RNA and protein synthesis.",
  "abbreviation": "CMM",
  "synonyms": [
    "carminomycin",
    "carminomycin I",
    "demethyldaunomycin",
    "karminomitsin",
    "karminomycin"
  ],
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/carubicin/"
}