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Bibliographic record

VenueKirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology · 2004
Typeother
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMicrobial Metabolism and Applications
Canadian institutionsWomen's Health Research Institute
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTetracyclineOxytetracyclineMicrobiologyMinocyclineStreptomyces aureofaciensAntibioticsDoxycyclineBiologyBacteriaChemistryStreptomyces

Abstract

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Abstract The tetracyclines are a group of antibiotics having an identical 4‐ring carbocyclic structure as a basic skeleton and differing from each other chemically only by substituent variation. The first tetracycline discovered was produced by a soil organism, Streptomyces aureofaciens , and is now known as chlorotetracycline. This compound ushered in a new era in antibacterial chemotherapy because it was effective orally and against a broad range of Gram‐positive and Gram‐negative bacteria. The three marketed tetracyclines were made by a semisynthetic pathway. The first of these were methacycline (6‐methylene oxytetracycline), and its reduction product doxycycline. The latest addition is minocycline. Minocycline showed superior antibacterial activity over other older tetracyclines and was active against many tetracycline‐resistant strains of gram‐positive bacteria when it was first discovered. In general, the tetracyclines are yellow crystalline compounds that have amphoteric properties. Most of the fermentation and isolation processes for manufacture of the tetracyclines are described in patents. Manufacture begins with the cultivated growth of selected strains of Streptomyces in a medium chosen to produce growth and maximum antibiotic production. Most of the clinically useful tetracyclines have been prepared either semi‐synthetically or isolated from fermentation. Tetracyclines inhibit bacterial growth by blocking protein synthesis and are bacteriostatic. The crystal structure of complex of Thermus thermophilius 30S ribosomal subunit with tetracycline has recently been determined. The emergence of bacterial resistance to tetracyclines has limited the use of these agents. Nevertheless, they are still the treatment of first choice for bacterial infections causing brucellosis, cholera, chancroid, granuloma inguinale, and lyme disease; for rickettsial and chlamydial infections, in the treatment of nonspecific urethritis, and in the treatment of acne vulgaris and rosacea. Tetracyclines are used as alternative drugs in a variety of circumstances when patient is unable to take the drug of choice, eg, in patients allergic to penicillin. Tetracyclines are widely used for veterinary therapy. The types of pathogens encountered are frequently different from those for which tetracyclines are used in humans. The discovery of glycylcyclines represents a significant advance in combating highly resistant organisms. One of the compounds, tigecycline, is current in phase III clinical trials. Tigecycline exhibits potent antibacterial activity against a broad‐spectrum of both tetracycline‐susceptible and tetracycline‐resistant organisms, including organisms resistant to other class of antibiotics. Most notably, it is active against multiply‐resistant staphylococci, vancomycin‐resistant enterococci, penicillin‐resistant streptococci and methicillin‐resistant S. aureous .

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.481
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0020.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.232 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it