Bacteriolytic activity of lysozyme in the nasal mucosa.
During an experiment to study the localization of the lysozyme in the nasal mucosa of humans by the protein A-gold technique, we observed the accumulation of lysozymes around bacteria possibly causing bacteriolysis. The lysozyme, therefore, seems to play a preventive role against some kind of bacterial infection in the nasal mucosa in situ.
D001433:Bacteriolysis; D006801:Humans; D009113:Muramidase / Q000276:immunology / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009297:Nasal Mucosa / Q000201:enzymology*
D009113:Muramidase