Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli.
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- noun Any of several
bacteriophages that caninfect strains of thebacterium Escherichia coli
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- noun a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Rational Review 2009
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Satellite (or helper-dependent) coliphage P4 depends upon helper phage P2 capsid, tail and lysis proteins.
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At 39,472 bp, the annotated genome revealed a closer relationship to coliphage T3 than T7 with Kvp1 containing homologs to T3 early proteins S-adenosyl-L-methionine hydrolase (0.3) and protein kinase (0.7).
BioMed Central - Latest articles Andre Villegas Erika J Lingohr 2008
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