endolysin

English

Etymology

endo- +‎ lysin

Noun

endolysin (plural endolysins)

  1. (biochemistry) Any endogenous lysin
    • 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:
      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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