Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various antibacterial proteins produced by certain strains of E. coli that inhibit or kill closely related species or strains of bacteria.
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- noun biochemistry Any of a class of
protein ,secreted by certainstrains ofbacteria , that kills but does notlyse other strains.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mathieu LG, Baril JP (1977) Production of colicin V in vitro and in vivo and observations on its effects in experimental animals.
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Mahanty HK, Kolter R (1990) Genetic analysis of an MDR-like export system: the secretion of colicin V. Embo J 9: 3875-3884.
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The colicin V is exported by CvaA and CvaB into the cytoplasmic membrane and outer membrane by a host chromosomal gene product TolC
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Many studies have shown that production of colicin V is not necessary for pathogenicity of E. coli by itself but it is a marker for other properties associated with the presence of ColV plasmid
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According to recent studies, most virulence genes associated with APEC are often located on IncF plasmids, named ColV plasmids because their ability to code for production of colicin V, a small protein from the microcine family
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A putative virulence region spanning an 80-kb region of pAPEC-1 possesses four iron acquisition systems (iutA iucABCD, sitABCD, iroBCDN, and temperature-sensitive hemagglutinin tsh), a colicin V operon, increasing serum sensitivity iss, ompT, hlyF, and etsABC.
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Quackenbush RL, Falkow S (1979) Relationship between colicin V activity and virulence in
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This region contains four iron acquisition systems (iutA iucABCD, sitABCD, iroBCDN and temperature-sensitive hemagglutinin tsh), colicin V operon, increasing serum sensitivity iss
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Brown J, Gibbs PS, Nolan LK, Turner KR (1994) Effect of normal intestinal flora of chickens on colonization by virulent colicin V-producing, avirulent, and mutant colicin V-producing avian
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Williams PH, Warner PJ (1980) ColV plasmid-mediated, colicin V-independent iron uptake system of invasive strains of
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