bacteriocin

bacteriocin
bac·te·ri·o·cin (băk-tîrʹē-ə-sĭn') n.
An antibacterial substance, such as colicin, produced by a strain of certain bacteria and harmful to another strain within the same family.
  [bacterio- + colicin.]

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