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parabactin

parabactin noun: the bacterial iron chelator (2Z,4S,5R)-N-[4-[(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)amino]butyl]-N-[3-[(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)amino]propyl]-5-methyl-2-(6-oxocyclohexa-2,4-dien-1-ylidene)-1,3-oxazolidine-4-carboxamide.

Noun

parabactin (uncountable)

  1. The bacterial iron chelator (2Z,4S,5R)-N-[4-[(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)amino]butyl]-N-[3-[(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)amino]propyl]-5-methyl-2-(6-oxocyclohexa-2,4-dien-1-ylidene)-1,3-oxazolidine-4-carboxamide

Questions about parabactin

What does parabactin mean?
Parabactin means the bacterial iron chelator (2Z,4S,5R)-N-[4-[(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)amino]butyl]-N-[3-[(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)amino]propyl]-5-methyl-2-(6-oxocyclohexa-2,4-dien-1-ylidene)-1,3-oxazolidine-4-carboxamide.
What part of speech is parabactin?
Parabactin is a noun.

Words near parabactin in the dictionary

  1. paraarterial
  2. paraarticular
  3. paraarticularly
  4. paraathlete
  5. paraautochthonous
  6. parabactin
  7. parabaik
  8. parabaiks
  9. parabalistic
  10. paraballism
  11. paraballistic

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