Talk:Kanamycin
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Kanamycin may not be used much anymore as a drug for humans, but it is ubiquitous in microbiology labs (for instance as an ingredient in medium on which clones with DNA inserts are grown, to ensure that only bacteria with the desired insert - to which a gene conferring resistance to kanamycin has been appended - are able to grow.)
Asteen 02:42, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
The last paragraph is obviously either copy and pasted from somewhere or a relic from a section that was once part of the article. It needs to be removed (not terribly relevant) or cleaned up to fit the context. Slimdude87 (talk) 15:04, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] What is it effecive against?
There needs to be a section in wiki articles on antibiotics outlining which bact groups are and are not susceptible. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MevKurray (talk • contribs) 05:06, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Pharmacology
While the article states "Kanamycin interacts with the 30S subunit of prokaryotic ribosomes. " two other manufacturer sources specify the 70S subunit as the site of Kanamycin action. Briancady413 (talk) 15:36, 28 December 2010 (UTC) 15:35, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
[edit] Uses in plant transformation
Kanamycin resistance is used as a selectable marker in plants, because kanamycin inhibits chloroplast ribosomes (leading to white plants). However, I don't know much about this and don't have a source. If someone does know a bit more about it, I think a section on that would be good since that's what I came here for. 131.111.185.74 (talk) 09:28, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
