Gladiolin
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Gladiolin is a noun meaning (medicine, organic chemistry) An antibiotic produced by the bacterium Burkholderia gladioli, with potential applications in treating tuberculosis.
Meaning
(medicine, organic chemistry) An antibiotic produced by the bacterium Burkholderia gladioli, with potential applications in treating tuberculosis.
Example Sentences
Gladiolin is structurally related to etnangien, a highly unstable antibiotic from Sorangium cellulosum that is also active against Mycobacteria.
In this study, a previously uncharacterised trans-AT PKS subunit interface between a ketoreductase and a methyltransferase domain (KR/MT junction) is examined from the gladiolin trans-AT PKS.
The configuration of all but one of the stereogenic centers of gladiolin has previously been elucidated using a combination of NOESY NMR experiments and predictive sequence analysis of the polyketide synthase responsible for its assembly.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include brilacidin, bacilysin, gallidermin, blasticidin, glumamycin, blastocidin.
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