BACTERIAL TOXIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bacterial toxin mean? 

• BACTERIAL TOXIN (noun)
  The noun BACTERIAL TOXIN has 1 sense:

1. any endotoxin or exotoxin formed in or elaborated by bacterial cells

  Familiarity information: BACTERIAL TOXIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACTERIAL TOXIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any endotoxin or exotoxin formed in or elaborated by bacterial cells

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("bacterial toxin" is a kind of...):

toxin (a poisonous substance produced during the metabolism and growth of certain microorganisms and some higher plant and animal species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bacterial toxin"):

Clostridium perfringens epsilon toxin; epsilon toxin (a bacterial toxin produced by clostridium perfringens; causes intense abdominal cramps and diarrhea that begins 8-22 hours after consumption of foods containing large numbers of these bacteria)

anatoxin; toxoid (a bacterial toxin that has been weakened until it is no longer toxic but is strong enough to induce the formation of antibodies and immunity to the specific disease caused by the toxin)

botulin; botulinus toxin; botulismotoxin (potent bacterial toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum that causes botulism; can be used as a bioweapon)

 Context examples 

It is made by combining interleukin-4 with a bacterial toxin.

(interleukin-4 PE38KDEL cytotoxin, NCI Dictionary)

Ontak is made by combining a part of IL-2 with a bacterial toxin.

(Ontak, NCI Dictionary)

Denileukin diftitox is made by combining a part of IL-2 with a bacterial toxin.

(Denileukin diftitox, NCI Dictionary)

Relaxing the muscles around the eyes can also reduce wrinkles in the eye region, leading to cosmetic use of this potent bacterial toxin.

(Botulin Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

An immunotoxin consisting of a monoclonal antibody directed against epithelial glycoprotein-2 (EP-2, or epithelial cell adhesion molecule (EpCAM)) conjugated to the bacterial toxin Pseudomonas exotoxin A (PE) with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Anti-EGP-2 Immunotoxin MOC31-PE, NCI Thesaurus)

Bacterial toxins can also be made in the laboratory and attached to monoclonal antibodies that bind to cancer cells.

(Bacterial toxin, NCI Dictionary)

An immunoconjugate of the humanized monoclonal antibody hP67.6 chemically linked to a bacterial toxin, N-acetyl-gamma calicheamicin, by 4-acetylphenylacetic acid, with antileukemic property.

(Anti-CD33 Immunotoxin, NCI Thesaurus)