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phen·a·zine

(fĕn′ə-zēn′) also phen·a·zin (-zĭn)
n.
A yellow crystalline compound, C12H8N2, used in the manufacture of dyes.
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phenazine

(ˈfɛnəˌziːn)
n
(Elements & Compounds) a yellow crystalline tricyclic compound that is the parent compound of many azine dyes and some antibiotics. Formula: C6H4N2C6H4
[C19: from pheno- + azine]
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Bacterial strains generates increase resistance towards antibiotics, germicides and disinfectants in this regards phenazines have been of great importance from last decades to pharmaceutical and clinical researchers in treating the antibiotic-resistant and susceptible infections (Shouny et al., 2011).
Additional examples of microbial AhR agonist production occur at other barrier tissues, such as the skin where indirubin and malassezin produced by the yeast Malassezia are both potent AhR activators [41] and the lung where AhR sensing of the bacterial pigments phenazines regulates antibacterial defence [42].
Conda-Sheridan, Simple synthesis of endophenazine G and other phenazines and their evaluation as anti-methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus agents, Europ.
Although in previous work conductive materials such as phenazines or humic acids did not seem to stimulate AOM rates [61], in a recent study AOM was decoupled from SR using artificial electron acceptors [125].
Phenazines and their role in biocontrol by Pseudomonas bacteria.
Phenazines are chemically heterogeneous group of small organic molecules of microbial origin.
Some of the characterized antimicrobial compounds produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa include a group of peptides known as pyocins and an assortment of small heterocyclic compounds including the phenazines, quinolines and phenylpyrroles.
Antimalarial activity of phenazines from lapachol, p-lapachone and its derivatives against Plasmodium falciparum in vitro and Plasmodium berghei in vivo.
The team looked specifically at phenazines which are secreted metabolites that control gene expression.
(1998) Isolation and characterization of methanophenazine and function of phenazines in membrane-bound electron transport of Methanosarcina mazei Go1.

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