NOUN
- an antibiotic produced by a soil bacterium; used chiefly as an antiseptic in treating local infections produced by Gram-positive bacteria
How To Use gramicidin In A Sentence
- These interesting properties have made gramicidin an appropriate model for studying solvent effects on the structural changes of peptides and proteins.
- Her general practitioner had treated it unsuccessfully with neomycin and gramicidin ointment and oral flucloxacillin and metronidazole.
- Proton-bound dimers were obtained by adding 0.1% trifluoroacetic acid to the gramicidin solution in propanol.
- In fact, gramicidin is one of the first known antibiotics.
- Her general practitioner had treated it unsuccessfully with neomycin and gramicidin ointment and oral flucloxacillin and metronidazole.
- The gramicidin channel consists of a head-to-head dimer of beta 6.5 helices in which the 4 - angstrom pore is lined by the neutrally terminated peptide backbone.
- In the case of gramicidin, this chain is composed entirely of water molecules and called a water wire.
- As a result, gramicidin does not form a zwitterion or become charged at any pH, explaining its poor solubility in water.
