bacteriocinn.

1954 Nature 4 Sept. 465/1 Its characteristics are more closely related to the bacteriocines.

1959 Jacob & Wollman in M. H. Adams Bacteriophages xx. 382 The general term of bacteriocins has been proposed to include such antibiotics of protein nature whose production is lethal and whose action, restricted to a narrow range of related species, is conditioned by the presence of specific receptors.

1972 Nature 24 Mar. 144/1 The colicins, bacteriocins of strains of Escherichia coli, needless to say, have been more extensively studied than their counterparts in the more arcane bacterial genera.

1985 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 1986 280/1 It is..likely that bacteriocin production is the principal means by which indigenous bacteria of the bowel and lower genitourinary tract suppress potential pathogens that attempt to colonize these two sites.