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                                                                Synonyms: Aureomycin®
                                 
                                                         
                            
                            
                            
                                 
                                
                                chlortetracycline is an approved drug (FDA (1950)) 
                                                        
                                                    
                                Compound class: 
                                                            Natural product
                                 
                                
                                    
                                        Comment: Chlortetracycline is a tetracycline antibacterial, originally isolated from Kitasatospora aureofaciens (formerly Streptomyces aureofaciens), and the first compound from this class to be discovered [3-5]. Note that the structure shown here matches the CAS-assigned structure. The PubChem link, provided in the table below, is to their standardized chemical structure (CID 54675777), although this is not an exact structural match.
                                    
                                 
                            
                            
                          
                                
                                    
                                
                          
                                   
                                   
                                  
                                    
                                    
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| Bioactivity Comments | 
| Chlortetracycline has antibacterial activity in vitro against both Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, with the exception of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Proteus spp. [4]. |