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Also known as ristomycin

Ristocetin is a glycopeptide antibiotic, obtained from Amycolatopsis lurida, previously used to treat staphylococcal infections. It is no longer used clinically because it caused thrombocytopenia and platelet agglutination. It is now used solely to assay those functions in vitro in the diagnosis of conditions such as von Willebrand disease (vWD) and Bernard–Soulier syndrome. Platelet agglutination caused by ristocetin can occur only in the presence of von Willebrand factor multimers, so if ristocetin is added to blood lacking the factor (or its receptor—see below), the platelets will not clump

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Within Vinony's link graph, ristocetin is referenced by 67 other articles, and connects out to ceftolozane/tazobactam, International Standard Book Number and antibiotic.

It is catalogued under topics including Antibiotics, Chembox image size set and Clinical chemistry.

Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.

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canonical SMILES
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chemical formula
C₉₄H₁₀₈N₈O₄₄
isomeric SMILES
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Ristocetin is a glycopeptide antibiotic, obtained from Amycolatopsis lurida, previously used to treat staphylococcal infections. It is no longer used clinically because it caused thrombocytopenia and platelet agglutination. It is now used solely to assay those functions in vitro in the diagnosis of conditions such as von Willebrand disease (vWD) and Bernard–Soulier syndrome. Platelet agglutination caused by ristocetin can occur only in the presence of von Willebrand factor multimers, so if ristocetin is added to blood lacking the factor (or its receptor—see below), the platelets will not clump.

Through an unknown mechanism, the antibiotic ristocetin causes von Willebrand factor to bind the platelet receptor glycoprotein Ib (GpIb), so when ristocetin is added to normal blood, it causes agglutination.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ristocetin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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