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mutanobactins

mutanobactins is the plural of mutanobactin.

Meaning of mutanobactin

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

Questions about mutanobactins

What is mutanobactins the plural of?
Mutanobactins is the plural of mutanobactin.

Words near mutanobactins in the dictionary

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

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