mutanobactin

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noun

Any of a family of pigments, isolated from Streptococcus mutans, that arrest the growth of the oral infection thrush

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nounmutanobactin (plural mutanobactins)

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
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