endolysin

From endo- +‎ lysin.

endolysin (plural endolysins)

1. (biochemistry) Any endogenous lysin
   • 2015 July 28, Tasha M. Santiago-Rodriguez et al., “Transcriptome analysis of bacteriophage communities in periodontal health and disease”, in BMC Genomics‎^[1], volume 16, →DOI:

     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 ].