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gladiolin

gladiolin noun: an antibiotic produced by the bacterium Burkholderia gladioli, with potential applications in treating tuberculosis.

Noun

gladiolin (uncountable)

  1. An antibiotic produced by the bacterium Burkholderia gladioli, with potential applications in treating tuberculosis.
    • Gladiolin is structurally related to etnangien, a highly unstable antibiotic from Sorangium cellulosum that is also active against Mycobacteria.2017, Lijiang Song et al., “Discovery and biosynthesis of gladiolin: a Burkholderia gladioli antibiotic with promising activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis”, in Journal of the American...
    • The configuration of all but one of the stereogenic centers of gladiolin has previously been elucidated using a combination of NOESY NMR experiments and predictive sequence analysis of the polyketide synthase responsible for its assembly.2018, Christopher Perry, Jacob R. Sargeant, Lijiang Song, Gregory L. Challis, “Relative stereochemical assignment of C-33 and C-35 in the antibiotic gladiolin”, in Tetrahedron, →DOI, page 5150

Origin of gladiolin

gladioli + -in

Questions about gladiolin

What does gladiolin mean?
Gladiolin means an antibiotic produced by the bacterium Burkholderia gladioli, with potential applications in treating tuberculosis.
What part of speech is gladiolin?
Gladiolin is a noun.

Words near gladiolin in the dictionary

  1. gladiolar
  2. gladiolas
  3. gladiole
  4. gladioles
  5. gladioli
  6. gladiolin
  7. gladiolus
  8. gladioluses
  9. Gladish
  10. Gladishes
  11. gladite

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