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colicin

American

[kol-uh-sin] / ˈkɒl ə sɪn /

noun

Pharmacology.

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

Etymology

Origin of colicin

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

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