Lysin Stocks List
Symbol | Grade | Name | % Change | |
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CHD | B | Church & Dwight Company, Inc. | 0.22 | |
BCPC | C | Balchem Corporation | 2.82 |
Related Industries: Household & Personal Products Specialty Chemicals
Symbol | Grade | Name | Weight | |
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PSCM | A | PowerShares S&P SmallCap Materials Portfolio | 6.64 | |
PSL | B | PowerShares Dynamic Consumer Staples | 4.46 | |
VICE | C | AdvisorShares Vice ETF | 4.3 | |
WBIF | C | WBI Large Cap Tactical Value Shares | 4.14 | |
WBIG | D | WBI Large Cap Tactical Yield Shares | 4.08 |
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- Lysin
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. Cell-wall-containing Archaea are also lysed by specialized pseudomurein-cleaving lysins, while most archaeal viruses employ alternative mechanisms. Similarly, not all bacteriophages synthesize lysins: some small single-stranded DNA and RNA phages produce membrane proteins that activate the host's autolytic mechanisms such as autolysins.Lysins are being used as antibacterial agents due to their high effectiveness and specificity in comparison with antibiotics, which are susceptible to bacterial resistance.
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