Word.ws English Dictionary

globomycin

globomycin noun: a cyclic peptide antibiotic which inhibits the growth of enteric Gram-negative bacteria through cell wall synthesis inhibition.

Noun

globomycin

  1. A cyclic peptide antibiotic which inhibits the growth of enteric Gram-negative bacteria through cell wall synthesis inhibition
    • It has been shown that the two main strategies commonly used to confirm lipid modification of a protein (radiolabeling with palmitic acid and inhibition of the signal peptidase II activity by globomycin) have not worked in H. pylori [ 49, 50 ].2015 July 4, Paula Roszczenko et al., “Helicobacter pylori HP0377, a member of the Dsb family, is an untypical multifunctional CcmG that cooperates with dimeric thioldisulfide oxidase HP0231”, in BMC...

Questions about globomycin

What does globomycin mean?
Globomycin means a cyclic peptide antibiotic which inhibits the growth of enteric Gram-negative bacteria through cell wall synthesis inhibition.
What part of speech is globomycin?
Globomycin is a noun.

Words near globomycin in the dictionary

  1. globodontia
  2. globohomo
  3. globoid
  4. globoidal
  5. globoids
  6. globomycin
  7. globophilia
  8. globophobe
  9. globophobes
  10. globophobia
  11. globophobic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: globomycin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “globomycin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/globomycin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.