mutanobactin

English

Noun

mutanobactin (plural mutanobactins)

1. 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], →DOI:

     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.