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maitansine

maitansine is the alternative form of maytansine.

Meaning of maytansine

Noun

maytansine (countable and uncountable, plural maytansines)

  1. A cytotoxic agent that inhibits the assembly of microtubules by binding to tubulin at the rhizoxin binding site.

Questions about maitansine

What is maitansine the alternative form of?
Maitansine is the alternative form of maytansine.

Words near maitansine in the dictionary

  1. maistring
  2. maistry
  3. Maisy
  4. maitake
  5. maitakes
  6. maitansine
  7. Maitham
  8. Maithil
  9. Maithila
  10. Maithilas
  11. Maithili

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Adapted from Wiktionary: maitansine (page history and authors); maytansine (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.

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