pathotoxin, n. Biol.
(ˌpæθəʊˈtɒksɪn)
[f. patho- + toxin n.]
Any toxin whose presence causes, or contributes towards the causation of, a disease.
| 1963 Wheeler & Luke in Ann. Rev. Microbiol. XVII. 225 For those toxins which have been shown to play an important causal role in disease, we propose the term ‘pathotoxin’. 1965 Phytopathol. LV. 967/1 Victorin.., the ‘pathotoxin’..produced by Helminthosporium victoriae. 1973 Biochem. & Biophys. Res. Communications LI. 725 Several plant pathogens, including H[elminthosporium] maydis race T, produce pathotoxins that damage plant cells, producing disease symptoms. 1982 J. B. Harborne Introd. Ecol. Biochem. (ed. 2) ix. 256 This second pathotoxin is actually toxic to the conidia of the parasite. 1985 Agric. & Biol. Chem. XLIX. 559/2 Recently, similar host-specific pathotoxins..have been isolated from cultures of another unrelated corn pathogen, Phyllosticta maydis. |