An anthracycline antibiotic that is steffimycin in which the carbonyl group that is adjacent to the carbon bearing both a hydroxy group and a methyl group has been reduced to the corresponding methylene group. An antitumour anthracycline first isolated from Streptomyces steffisburgensis.
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An EC 3.4.24.* (metalloendopeptidase) inhibitor which interferes with the action of microbial collagenase (EC 3.4.24.3, also formerly EC 3.4.4.19 and EC 3.4.99.5).
A role played by a chemical agent which exhibits the capability of occupying space between DNA base pairs due to particular properties in size, shape and charge. Intercalation of chemical compounds in DNA helix can result in replication errors (shift, mutation) or DNA damages.