Biologically Active Substance
colicin Audio
col·i·cin [ kol-uh-sin ]
Subclass of:
Bacterial Proteins
Definitions related to colicin:
  • Bacteriocins elaborated by strains of Escherichia coli and related species. They are proteins or protein-lipopolysaccharide complexes lethal to other strains of the same species.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (colicine) Group of bacteriocins elaborated by strains of Escherichia coli and related species; proteins or protein-lipopolysaccharide complexes lethal to other strains of the same species.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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