colicin

[ kol-uh-sin ]

nounPharmacology.
  1. any bacteriocin produced by certain strains of Escherichia coli and having a lethal effect on strains other than the producing strain.

Origin of colicin

1
1945–50; <French colicine, equivalent to coli- (see coliform) + -cine, probably extracted from names of antibiotics ending in -mycine-mycin

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