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gliotoxin
gliotoxin[¦glī·ō‚täk·sən] (microbiology) C13H14O4N2S2 A heat-labile, bacteriostatic antibiotic produced by species of Trichoderma and Cliocladium and by Aspergillus fumigatus. gliotoxin
gliotoxin A poisonous substance produced by the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus that has been found to interfere with the ‘stickiness’ of MACROPHAGES and to inhibit the process by which the immune system recognizes transplanted tissue, infecting organisms and cancer cells as ‘foreign’. |