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autoinducing en · ADJ

Etymology

From auto- + inducing.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That promotes autoinduction.
    • The Sender cell contains the entire agr operon (P2-agrBDCA) and can thus both secrete and sense AIP, the autoinducing peptide. 2015 July 22, “A Synthetic Quorum Sensing System Reveals a Potential Private Benefit for Public Good Production in a Biofilm”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: