English Explanatory Dictionary

colicin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a class of proteins, secreted by certain strains of bacteria, that kill but do not lyse other strains

Word forms

colicin colicins

Etymology

From French colicine, from coli- + -cine, with ending formed by analogy from antibiotics like auréomycine, streptomycine, with second element from myc- + -ine.

Derived words

colicinogenic
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