endolysin

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noun

Any endogenous lysin

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Meanings

nounendolysin (plural endolysins)

plural endolysins

  1. biochemistryAny endogenous lysin

    Some phages lyse their hosts using a holin-endolysin system; however, in others, there is no interaction between the holin and the endolysin genes in host lysis [ 47 ].

    2015 July 28, Tasha M. Santiago-Rodriguez et al., “Transcriptome analysis of bacteriophage communities in periodontal health and disease”, in BMC Genomics, volume 16, →DOI

Origin

From endo- + lysin.

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Translations

French endolysine
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Chicago

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