mutanobactin
English
editNoun
editmutanobactin (plural mutanobactins)
- Any of a family of pigments, isolated from Streptococcus mutans, that arrest the growth of the oral infection thrush
- 2016 January 6, “A Novel Method to Predict Genomic Islands Based on Mean Shift Clustering Algorithm”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- 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.