Sentences with phrase «coli burst open»

They kill their prey by spitting out antibiotics; then they spit out digestive enzymes that make the E. coli burst open.

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The researchers gave E. coli one last synthetic component: a «suicide gene» that is activated once the pyocin has had some time to build up, causing the cells to burst open and release their toxin.
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