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parabactin

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
parabactin
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The bacterial iron chelator (2Z,4S,5R)-N-[4-[(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)amino]butyl]-N-[3-[(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)amino]propyl]-5-methyl-2-(6-oxocyclohexa-2,4-dien-1-ylidene)-1,3-oxazolidine-4-carboxamide

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What does parabactin mean?
The bacterial iron chelator (2Z,4S,5R)-N-[4-[(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)amino]butyl]-N-[3-[(2,3-dihydroxybenzoyl)amino]propyl]-5-methyl-2-(6-oxocyclohexa-2,4-dien-1-ylidene)-1,3-oxazolidine-4-carboxamide

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