rhamnolipid

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noun

Any of a class of glycolipid surfactants, produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other species, that has one or more rhamnose groups

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounrhamnolipid (plural rhamnolipids)

plural rhamnolipids

  1. biochemistryAny of a class of glycolipid surfactants, produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other species, that has one or more rhamnose groups

    Briefly, the rhamnolipid extract of each sample was dissolved in 4 mL of chloroform and put in contact with a freshly prepared methylene blue solution (200 μL of a 1 g l -1 methylene blue and 4.9 mL of distilled water).

    2015 July 18, “Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Formation and Persistence, along with the Production of Quorum Sensing-Dependent Virulence Factors, Are Disrupted by a Triterpenoid Coumarate Ester Isolated from Dalbergia trichocarpa, a Tropical Legume”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

  1. translingualRhamnus“genus of buckthorn”
  2. Englishrhamnolipid

From translingual Rhamnus (“genus of buckthorn”) + lipid.

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