an aminoglycoside antibiotic obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces kanamyceticus, used in the treatment of various infections, esp those caused by Gram-negative bacteria. Formula: C18H36N4O11
Word origin
C20: from New Latin kanamyceticus
Examples of 'kanamycin' in a sentence
kanamycin
Mutants are therefore selected by re-transformation of clones into a wild-type strain and growth on kanamycin.