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mutanobactin

mutanobactin noun: any of a family of pigments, isolated from Streptococcus mutans, that arrest the growth of the oral infection thrush.

Noun

mutanobactin (plural mutanobactins)

  1. Any of a family of pigments, isolated from Streptococcus mutans, that arrest the growth of the oral infection thrush
    • This region carries genes coding for non-ribosomal peptide synthetases, polyketide synthases, and accessory proteins that are responsible for the biosynthesis of the pigment mutanobactin carried by S. mutans.2016 January 6, “A Novel Method to Predict Genomic Islands Based on Mean Shift Clustering Algorithm”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of mutanobactin

pluralmutanobactins

Questions about mutanobactin

What does mutanobactin mean?
Mutanobactin means any of a family of pigments, isolated from Streptococcus mutans, that arrest the growth of the oral infection thrush.
What part of speech is mutanobactin?
Mutanobactin is a noun.
What is the plural of mutanobactin?
The plural of mutanobactin is mutanobactins.

Words near mutanobactin in the dictionary

  1. Mutanchiang
  2. Mutand
  3. mutanda
  4. mutandum
  5. Mutankiang
  6. mutanobactin
  7. mutanobactins
  8. mutanolysin
  9. mutanolysine
  10. mutanome
  11. mutanomes

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