Meaning of gladiolin | Babel Free

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An antibiotic produced by the bacterium Burkholderia gladioli, with potential applications in treating tuberculosis.

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Examples

“Gladiolin is structurally related to etnangien, a highly unstable antibiotic from Sorangium cellulosum that is also active against Mycobacteria.”

“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.”

“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.”

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