autolysinn.
/ɔːˈtɒlᵻsɪn/, U.S. /ɔˈtɑləsn/, /ɑˈtɑləsn/ Medicine and Bacteriology.
An autoantibody or other endogenous substance that lyses cells; spec. an enzyme present within a bacterial cell that breaks down components of the cell.
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autolysin1900
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autolysin1900
bacteriolysin1900
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isohaemolysin1905
syncytiolysin1913
fibrinolysin1915
1900 St. Louis Courier Med. 23 162 If this is the modus operandi in normal or artificially obtained hemolysins and isolysins, it was of the utmost interest to find out whether autolysins are possible.
1925 H. Zinsser Textbk. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) iv. 73 This property of autolysin production is then inherited from culture to culture [of Colon bacilli].
1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) xi. 166 This process destroys an autolysin which can otherwise completely lyse a saline suspension of the organisms in a few hours.
2007 D.-J. Scheffers in P. Graumann Bacillus x. 348 Since autolysins can disrupt the integrity of the PG [= peptidoglycan] structure, and therefore are potentially lethal, their activity needs to be under tight control.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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