lysozyme
pronunciation
How to pronounce lysozyme in British English:
UK ['laɪsəzaɪm]
How to pronounce lysozyme in American English:
US ['laɪsəˌzaɪm]
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- Noun:
- an enzyme found in saliva and sweat and tears that destroys the cell walls of certain bacteria
Word Origin
- lysozyme
- 1922, from lyso- + suffix from enzyme.
Example
- 1. Even with its elevated enzyme levels , two glasses of even the most enhanced transgenic milk still contains far less lysozyme than we swallow in our saliva every day .
- 2. Lactoferrin , lactoperoxidase , lysozyme casein glycomacropeptide , phosphopeptides , and fat globule membrane proteins .
- 3. They began with easy-to-acquire human genes that both make lysozyme and regulate its expression . They put those genes into cow cells , and they created embryos that contained those genes in their mammary glands .
- 4. Lysozyme , an important model protein , has found wide application in the investigation of protein crystallization mechanism and methods .
- 5. It was showed that the denaturation process of lysozyme induced with guanidine hydrochloride was consistent with typical " three-state model " .