lysin in English

noun
1
an antibody or other substance able to cause lysis of cells (especially bacteria).
The ancestral lysin proteins may be useful for future laboratory studies.

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1. Auxilytic (awk′si-lit′ik) Increasing the destructive power of a lysin, or favoring lysis

2. ‘It is the chemical Basicity of the nucleotides that has given them the common term ‘bases’ as they are associated with nucleotides present in DNA and RNA.’ ‘One hypothesis they did not consider is the high Basicity of lysin (PI 10 11; J