hemolysis

METPO:1005025 · CLASS · SEEDED

A phenotype describing the ability of an organism to lyse red blood cells.

Trait evidence (1)

DOI:10.3390/toxins5061140
hemolysis to toxigenic substances secreted by S. aureus

Berube and Bubeck Wardenburg review historical evidence that S. aureus secretes hemolytic toxins.

Provenance

Identifier source: METPO (2026-06-12)
Definition source: DOI:10.3390/toxins5061140

Parent traits (1)

phenotype METPO:1000059

Children (1)

hemolytic METPO:1005026

Synonyms (1)

presence of hemolysis RELATED_SYNONYM · metpo.owl

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Canonical examples (1)

Organisms cited as exemplars of this trait. Taxon ids are NCBITaxon and link out to the NCBI record.

Staphylococcus aureus NCBITaxon:1280 DOI:10.3390/toxins5061140 Historical S. aureus culture supernatants caused hemolysis in rabbit assays of staphylococcal toxins.

Curation history

2026-09-11T05:43:36Z · SEEDED_FROM_METPO · seed_from_metpo
imported from data/raw/metpo.owl (CLASS)
2026-09-11T06:00:00Z · ENRICHED_FROM_LITERATURE · codex
Enriched the active METPO hemolysis class with DOI-backed Staphylococcus aureus hemolysis evidence after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files.