Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

mutanobactin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mu-tanobactin
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of a family of pigments, isolated from Streptococcus mutans, that arrest the growth of the oral infection thrush

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

mutanobactins (plural)

Questions

What does mutanobactin mean?: Any of a family of pigments, isolated from Streptococcus mutans, that arrest the growth of the oral infection thrush

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