Medical Definition of Bactenecin
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Highly cationic polypeptides found in lysosomal granules of bovine neutrophil granulocytes. They are thought to be involved in bacterial killing and occur in a third class of granules, the large granules, not found in the neutrophils of most species.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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