colibactin

English

Noun

colibactin (uncountable)

1. A bacterial genotoxin of uncertain structure
   • 2015 July 22, “Genomic Analysis of the Emergence and Rapid Global Dissemination of the Clonal Group 258 Klebsiella pneumoniae Pandemic”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Within CG258, we found several instances of colibactin genes, which encode a genotoxin that induces host DNA damage, and conjugation machinery of type IV secretion systems (T4SS), which is not surprising given CG258’s plethora of plasmids.