Meanings
nounstaphylobactin (uncountable)
- uncountableA siderophore obtained from the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.
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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) (see S2 Table).
2015 December 31, “Application of a Novel “Pan-Genome”-Based Strategy for Assigning RNAseq Transcript Reads to Staphylococcus aureus Strains”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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