An alternative or variant spelling of colicin, referring to antibacterial protein toxins produced by E. coli.
A variant form of 'colicin' using the '-ine' suffix (common in chemical nomenclature) instead of '-in,' both referring to the same class of bacterial proteins discovered in the 20th century.
Scientific terminology often has variant spellings (like colicin vs. colicine), a legacy of international scientists publishing in different languages—standardization is surprisingly recent in science!
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