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endolysins

endolysins is the plural of endolysin.

Meaning of endolysin

Noun

endolysin (plural endolysins)

  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 ].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

Questions about endolysins

What is endolysins the plural of?
Endolysins is the plural of endolysin.

Words near endolysins in the dictionary

  1. endolymphangial
  2. endolymphatic
  3. endolymphic
  4. endolymphs
  5. endolysin
  6. endolysins
  7. endolysis
  8. endolysosomal
  9. endolysosome
  10. endolysosomes
  11. endolytic

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