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Tetracycline hydrochloride

VETRANAL®, analytical standard

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C22H24N2O8 · HCl
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
480.90
Beilstein:
3844873
EC Number:
MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
41116107
PubChem Substance ID:
E Number:
E701
NACRES:
NA.24

grade

analytical standard

Quality Level

product line

VETRANAL®

shelf life

limited shelf life, expiry date on the label

technique(s)

HPLC: suitable
gas chromatography (GC): suitable

mp

220-223 °C (lit.)

application(s)

cleaning products
cosmetics
food and beverages
forensics and toxicology
personal care
pharmaceutical (small molecule)

format

neat

storage temp.

2-8°C

SMILES string

Cl.CN(C)[C@H]1[C@@H]2C[C@H]3C(=C(O)[C@]2(O)C(=O)C(C(N)=O)=C1O)C(=O)c4c(O)cccc4[C@@]3(C)O

InChI

1S/C22H24N2O8.ClH/c1-21(31)8-5-4-6-11(25)12(8)16(26)13-9(21)7-10-15(24(2)3)17(27)14(20(23)30)19(29)22(10,32)18(13)28;/h4-6,9-10,15,25,27-28,31-32H,7H2,1-3H3,(H2,23,30);1H/t9-,10-,15-,21+,22-;/m0./s1

InChI key

XMEVHPAGJVLHIG-FMZCEJRJSA-N

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General description

Tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH) is a broad-spectrum polyketide antibiotic with clinical uses in treating bacterial infections such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typush fever, tick fevers, Q fever, and Brill-Zinsser disease and to treat upper respiratory infections and acne. It also helps as an alternate drug for penicillin.

Application

Tetracycline (TCH) has been used in studies of multidrug resistance and potential side effects including acute pancreatitis. It is recommended for use in cell culture applications at 10 mg/L. TCH is also used as a reference standard in LC/MS/MS method for tetracycline residue analysis in biological samples.

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Biochem/physiol Actions

Mode of Action: Tetracycline passively diffuses through proin channels in the cell membrane, binding to 30S ribosomes and inhibits protein synthesis by preventing access of aminoacyl tRNA to the acceptor site on the mRNA-ribosome complex. It also binds to the bacterial 50S ribosomal subunit, altering the membrane and causing intracellular components to leak from bacterial cells. The inhibitory effects can be reversed by washing, suggesting that it is the reversibly bound antibiotic, and not the irreversibly bound drug, that is responsible for antibacterial action.

Mode of Resistance: The effects are inactivated via a loss of cell wall permeability.

Antimicrobial spectrum: Includes a wide range of antimicrobial activity against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.

Caution

This product should be frozen below 0°C and protected from light and moisture. In these conditions, the product has been shown to retain activity for 4 years. Stock solutions should be stored at -20°C and are stable at 37°C for 4 days.

Preparation Note

The product is freely soluble in water, soluble in methanol and ethanol but is insoluble in ether and hydrocarbons. In water, the product yields a clear, yellow-orange solution with heating and in 95% ethanol, 50 mg dissolved in 4 mL with heating yields a clear, yellow-green solution. Tetracycline is rapidly destroyed by alkali hydroxide solutions and standing water solutions become turbid due to hydrolysis and precipitation. The potency of tetracycline is reduced in solutions with pH below 2.

Legal Information

VETRANAL is a registered trademark of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Signal Word

Warning

Hazard Classifications

Aquatic Acute 1 - Aquatic Chronic 2 - Eye Irrit. 2 - Repr. 2 - Skin Irrit. 2 - STOT SE 3

Target Organs

Respiratory system

Storage Class Code

11 - Combustible Solids

WGK

WGK 2

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable

Personal Protective Equipment

dust mask type N95 (US), Eyeshields, Gloves

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A molecular imprinted membrane for molecular discrimination of tetracycline hydrochloride.
Trotta, F., et al.
Journal of Membrane Science, 254.1, 13-19 (2005)
T Bouchery et al.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 19(2), 131-140 (2013-02-13)
Symbiotic associations between eukaryotes and microorganisms are frequently observed in nature, and range along the continuum between parasitism and mutualism. The genus Wolbachia contains well-known intracellular bacteria of arthropods that induce several reproductive phenotypes that benefit the transmission of the
Ruiling Qi et al.
Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces, 110, 148-155 (2013-05-29)
Fabrication of nanofiber-based drug delivery system with controlled release property is of general interest in biomedical sciences. In this study, we prepared an antibiotic drug tetracycline hydrochloride (TCH)-loaded halloysite nanotubes/poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) composite nanofibers (TCH/HNTs/PLGA), and evaluated the drug release and
Leslie Cuthbertson et al.
Chemistry & biology, 20(2), 232-240 (2013-02-27)
The ligands that interact with the vast majority of small-molecule binding transcription factors are unknown, a significant gap in our understanding of sensory perception by cells. TetR-family regulators (TFRs) are found in most prokaryotes and are involved in regulating virtually
Biyang Deng et al.
Food chemistry, 134(4), 2350-2354 (2013-02-28)
A novel and sensitive determination for tetracycline (TC) in crucian carp muscle was developed by using capillary electrophoresis coupled with electrochemiluminescence (ECL) detection. The conditions affected separation and detection were examined in detail. The linearity range of TC concentration was

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