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fumicycline

fumicycline noun: a meroterpenoid anthrafuran 2,3,11,11a-tetrahydroanthra[2,3-b]furan produced by Aspergillus fumigatus when treated with the actinomycete Streptomyces rapamycinicus.

Noun

fumicycline (uncountable)

  1. A meroterpenoid anthrafuran 2,3,11,11a-tetrahydroanthra[2,3-b]furan produced by Aspergillus fumigatus when treated with the actinomycete Streptomyces rapamycinicus
    • Interestingly, these changes did not affect cell wall biosynthesis genes (e.g. genes involved in chitin or glucan biosynthesis), but were generally related to primary metabolism (e.g. sugar metabolism) and secondary metabolism (e.g. genes related to fumicycline biosynthesis) [35 ].2015 September 11, “Network Modeling Reveals Cross Talk of MAP Kinases during Adaptation to Caspofungin Stress in Aspergillus fumigatus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about fumicycline

What does fumicycline mean?
Fumicycline means a meroterpenoid anthrafuran 2,3,11,11a-tetrahydroanthra[2,3-b]furan produced by Aspergillus fumigatus when treated with the actinomycete Streptomyces rapamycinicus.
What part of speech is fumicycline?
Fumicycline is a noun.

Words near fumicycline in the dictionary

  1. fumferring
  2. fumfers
  3. fumfing
  4. fumfs
  5. Fumian
  6. fumicycline
  7. fumid
  8. fumidashi
  9. fumidawara
  10. fumidity
  11. Fumie

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