ophiobolin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of a class of phytotoxic metabolites produced by certain fungi of the genus Helminthosporium
Example Sentences
- "Negative control wells (12/96 per assay plate) contained cells treated with 1% DMSO (final concentration) and positive control wells (4/96 per assay plate) contained cells treated with the fungal toxin ophiobolin A (Sigma Aldrich) at 50 μM with 1% DMSO. Ophiobolin A is cytotoxic both to proliferating and quiescent GSCs. Relative ATP levels were measured 24 hours later using the CellTiter-Glo reagent (Promega) according to the manufacturer's instructions."