hemolytic

METPO:1005026 · CLASS · SEEDED

A phenotype in which an organism is capable of lysing 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, supporting a hemolytic phenotype.

Provenance

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

Parent traits (1)

hemolysis METPO:1005025

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 Canonical hemolytic bacterium whose culture supernatants have long been assayed for rabbit red-blood-cell lysis.

Curation history

2026-09-11T09:01:06Z · SEEDED_FROM_METPO · seed_from_metpo
imported from data/raw/metpo.owl (CLASS)
2026-09-11T09:02:00Z · ENRICHED_FROM_LITERATURE · codex
Enriched the active METPO hemolytic child class with DOI-backed Staphylococcus aureus hemolysis evidence after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files.