Colin vs Holin - What's the difference?
colin | holin |
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* 1992 Howard B. Means, Colin Powell , Donald J. Fine (1992), ISBN 1556113358, page 49:
(biology) Any of a diverse group of small proteins produced by dsDNA bacteriophages in order to trigger and control the degradation of the host's cell wall at the end of the lytic cycle.
*{{quote-journal, 2001, date=December 7, Jutta M. Loeffler et al., Rapid Killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae with a Bacteriophage Cell Wall Hydrolase, Science
, passage=All known pneumococcal phages contain a cell wall lytic system consisting of a holin that permeabilizes the cell membrane, and either an N -acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase (amidase) or a lysozyme, capable of digesting the pneumococcal cell wall (8 ). }}
As nouns the difference between colin and holin
is that colin is hake, coalfish while holin is (biology) any of a diverse group of small proteins produced by dsdna bacteriophages in order to trigger and control the degradation of the host's cell wall at the end of the lytic cycle.colin
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Alternative forms
* CollinProper noun
(en-proper noun) ( plural Colins )- That iolly shepheard, which there piped, was / Poore Colin' Clout (who knowes not ' Colin Clout?)
- "My parents," Powell wrote, "were British subjects, and they named me Colin' (KAH-lin). Being British, they knew very well how the name was supposed to be pronounced. But when I was a young boy, there was a famous American World War II hero whose name became very popular in the streets of New York City. He was Capt. ' Colin P. Kelly Jr. He was called KOH-lin. My friends in the streets of the South Bronx, who heard Captain Kelly's name pronounced in the radio and by their parents and other adults, began to refer to me by the same pronunciation.
Usage notes
* Popular given name in the U.K. in the mid-twentieth century.holin
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