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Gramicidin
A peptide antibiotic produced by the soil bacterium Brevibacillus brevis, isolated by René Dubos in 1939 in the mixture tyrothricin, among the first antibiotics to be manufactured commercially; it is used in throat lozenges, eye drops and wound creams. This family brings together the active ingredient and other impurities.
Did you know?Its alternating D- and L-amino acids form a helix: two molecules together span the cell membrane as an ion channel. The 'D' in gramicidin D stands for Dubos.
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EDQM standards 1
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
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Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.
