endolysins

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A form of endolysin — Any endogenous lysin

Scrabble 14

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of endolysin

    Some of these endolysins are secreted to the extracellular environment before completion of the viral lysis cycle independent of holin activity.

    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
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