mitomycin
The English word “mitomycin” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- Any of a family of aziridine-containing natural products isolated from the filamentous bacterium Streptomyces lavendulae, one of which is used as a chemotherapeutic agent.
Etymology
From mito- (“nucleotoxic agent”) + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).
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