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stenothricin

stenothricin noun: a particular peptide antibiotic found in some Streptomyces bacteria.

Noun

stenothricin (uncountable)

  1. A particular peptide antibiotic found in some Streptomyces bacteria
    • Work with the daptomycin producing strain of Streptomyces roseosporus showed that it has the capacity to produce three other Non-Ribosomal Peptide Synthetase (NRPS) products, namely arylomycin, napsamycin, and stenothricin, all previously unreported from this organism [22 ].2015 July 30, “Expanding the Described Metabolome of the Marine Cyanobacterium Moorea producens JHB through Orthogonal Natural Products Workflows”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Questions about stenothricin

What does stenothricin mean?
Stenothricin means a particular peptide antibiotic found in some Streptomyces bacteria.
What part of speech is stenothricin?
Stenothricin is a noun.

Words near stenothricin in the dictionary

  1. stenothermally
  2. stenothermic
  3. stenothermous
  4. stenotherms
  5. stenothermy
  6. stenothricin
  7. stenothyrid
  8. stenothyrids
  9. stenotic
  10. stenotopic
  11. stenotopy

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