Definition of "bacteriocin" []

• An antibacterial substance, such as colicin, produced by a strain of certain bacteria and harmful to another strain within the same family. (noun)

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• "Like bacteriocin from a rhizosphere-colonizing plant, I would have said, just googling for an amusing possibility."
• "Transfer of bacteriocin production to microbial starter cultures could improve the safety of fermented products."
• "The lactic acid bacteria naturally contain from one to more than ten distinct plasmids, and metabolically important traits, including lactose-fermenting ability, bacteriophage resistance, and bacteriocin production, have been linked to plasmid DNA."