Definition of Verticillus. Meaning of Verticillus. Synonyms of Verticillus

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Definition of Verticillus

Verticillus
Verticillus Ver`ti*cil"lus, n. [L., a whirl.] (Bot.) A whorl; a verticil.

Meaning of Verticillus from wikipedia

- Streptomyces verticillus is a species of Gram-positive bacteria in the genus Streptomyces. Whilst screening fermentation broths of this species for bioactivity...
- available as a generic medication. It is made by the bacterium Streptomyces verticillus. Bleomycin is mostly used to treat cancer. This includes testicular cancer...
- Aegopis verticillus is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Zonitidae, the true gl**** snails...
- glycopeptide antibiotic and one of the phleomycins from Streptomyces verticillus belonging to the bleomycin family of antibiotics. It is a broad-spectrum...
- RNA synthesis. Bleomycin, a glycopeptide isolated from Streptomyces verticillus, also intercalates DNA, but produces free radicals that damage DNA. This...
- medical treatments: migrastatin (from S. platensis) and bleomycin (from S. verticillus) are antineoplastic (anticancer) drugs; boromycin (from S. antibioticus)...
- (Ström, 1765) Perpolita petronella (L. Pfeiffer, 1853) Zonitidae Aegopis verticillus (Lamarck, 1822) Milacidae Milax gagates (Draparnaud, 1801) – non-indigenous...
- toxin (from Clostridium botulinum) and bleomycin (from Streptomyces verticillus) are two examples. Botulinum, the neurotoxin responsible for botulism...
- anticancer drug bleomycin (obtained from the soil bacterium Streptomyces verticillus), the immunosuppressant drug ciclosporin used to treat autoimmune diseases...
- established by the same author in the same year on the same page: Zonites verticillus var. graeca Kobelt, 1876 (Gastropoda) (p. 48), not Zonites albanicus...