Tags: Enzyme.
Lysins also known as endolysins or murein hydrolases are hydrolytic enzymes produced by bacteriophages in order to cleave the host’s cell wall during the final stage of the lytic cycle. Lysins are highly evolved enzymes that are able to target one of the five bonds in peptidoglycan (murein) the main component of bacterial cell walls which allows the release of progeny virions from the lysed cell.
