Colicin

noun

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

Etymology

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

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