What is Lysozyme？
Lysozyme is a glycoside hydrolase, which exists in a variety of human and animal tissues, plants and microorganisms. It can dissolve the cell wall of Gram-positive bacteria and has a strong killing effect.
Lysozyme is a kind of protein, which has strong solubility to Gram-positive bacteria. It can decompose the polysaccharides of glycoproteins (mucin like) in the cell membrane wall.
Lysozyme can prevent food from spoilage. It is widely used in food preservation (especially the production of cheese and sake), medicine (tablets, capsules, eye drops and throat lotion), daily chemicals (toothpaste and cosmetics), baby food (breast milk powder) and scientific research.
Application Area
Medical field
It can be used as a natural anti infective substance with bactericidal effect. It has the functions of antibacterial, antiviral, hemostasis, detumescence and pain relief and accelerating the recovery of tissue function. Lysozyme buccal tablets are used for acute and chronic pharyngitis, oral ulcer, etc.
Food field
It has antibacterial effects on Gram-positive bacteria, aerobic spore forming bacteria, Bacillus subtilis and lichen bacillus, but will not have adverse effects on human cells without cell wall. Therefore, it is suitable for the anti-corrosion of various foods. In addition, the enzyme can also kill intestinal spoilage cocci and increase intestinal anti infectivity. At the same time, it can also promote the proliferation of Bifidobacterium in infant intestinal tract, promote casein curd milk and facilitate digestion. Therefore, it is also a good additive for infant food and beverage.
Bioengineering field
Lysozyme specifically hydrolyzes the characteristics of bacterial cell wall, which is helpful to understand the structure of bacterial cell wall: the protoplast prepared by decomposing the cell wall can be used in academic research such as microbial classification and microbial breeding. In recent years, lysozyme has become an essential tool enzyme for cell engineering and genetic engineering, which is used to extract and manufacture enzymes, nucleic acids and active peptides.
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