Endolysin

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any 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 ]."

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"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 ]."

Etymology

From endo- + lysin.

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