NOVOBIOCIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does novobiocin mean? 

• NOVOBIOCIN (noun)
  The noun NOVOBIOCIN has 1 sense:

1. an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used to treat infections by Gram-positive bacteria

  Familiarity information: NOVOBIOCIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOVOBIOCIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used to treat infections by Gram-positive bacteria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("novobiocin" is a kind of...):

antibiotic; antibiotic drug (a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections)

 Context examples 

This species is motile by peritrichous flagella, catalase and indole positive, oxidase negative, positive for lysine decarboxylase, and can grow on cefsulodin irgasan novobiocin agar in culture.

(Kluyvera ascorbata, NCI Thesaurus)

Novobiocin, as well as other aminocoumarin antibiotics, inhibits bacterial DNA synthesis by targeting at the bacteria DNA gyrase and the related enzyme DNA topoisomerase IV.

(Novobiocin, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile by peritrichous flagella, catalase and indole positive, oxidase negative, does not ferment dulcitol and cannot grow on cefsulodin irgasan novobiocin agar in culture.

(Kluyvera cryocrescens, NCI Thesaurus)