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Meaning of bactenecin | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any of a family of antimicrobial cyclic peptides found in the granules of bovine neutrophils

Examples

“Secondly, AMPs having one disulfide bond which pack into a loop structure having a tail e.g., bactenecins and esculentins.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

bacteraemia bacterascites bacteræmia bacteremia bacteremically Bacteria