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Holing vs Holin - What's the difference?

holing | holin |

As nouns the difference between holing and holin

is that holing is (mining) undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass 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.

As a verb holing

is .

holing

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

    • Etymology 2

    See (hole) a hollow, and (-ing).

    Noun

  • (mining) undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass
    • (Raymond)

    holin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 citation
    • , 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 ). }}