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staphylobactin

staphylobactin noun: a siderophore obtained from the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.

Noun

staphylobactin (uncountable)

  1. A siderophore obtained from the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.
    • Core OGs comprised, among others metE genes encoding 5-methyltetrahydropteroyltriglutamate-homocysteine methyltransferases involved in methionine symthesis (OG 1412, comprising USA300HOU_0377) or sbnA genes encoding the staphylobactin biosynthesis protein SbnA (OG 166, comprising USA300HOU_0127)...2015 December 31, “Application of a Novel “Pan-Genome”-Based Strategy for Assigning RNAseq Transcript Reads to Staphylococcus aureus Strains”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about staphylobactin

What does staphylobactin mean?
Staphylobactin means a siderophore obtained from the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.
What part of speech is staphylobactin?
Staphylobactin is a noun.

Words near staphylobactin in the dictionary

  1. staphylinids
  2. staphylinoid
  3. staphylinoids
  4. staphylitis
  5. staphylo-
  6. staphylobactin
  7. staphylocidal
  8. staphylocoagulase
  9. staphylococcal
  10. staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome
  11. staphylococcemia

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