Word.ws English Dictionary

entolysin

entolysin is the misspelling 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 entolysin

What is entolysin the misspelling of?
Entolysin is the misspelling of endolysin.

Words near entolysin in the dictionary

  1. entolomataceous
  2. entolophid
  3. entolophids
  4. entolophulid
  5. entolophulids
  6. entolysin
  7. entomaspidiform
  8. entomb
  9. entombed
  10. entomber
  11. entombers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: entolysin (page history and authors); endolysin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “entolysin.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/entolysin. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.