What do lysine and lysozyme have in common, and where does the bulbululator come in?

Drexel's Flask

They have a common Greek root in the name. It means dissolution or decomposition.

Although to more advanced readers, it may seem that lysine with lysozyme are both used to fight infection.

Lysozyme

Lysozyme is an enzyme that is produced in our body and is excreted in large quantities in all kinds of fluids: tears, saliva, breast milk and various mucus.

The point of lysozyme is to dissolve the cell walls of gram-positive microbes.

You, brothers, asked to explain yourself, so do not complain about the complexity of the explanation.

Microbes are divided into gram-positive and gram-negative. In gram-positive microbes, the cell wall consists of one thick layer. Lysozyme dissolves this cell wall and the microbes fall apart.

Gram-positive microbes include streptococci, which cause pneumonia, otitis media, sore throat and scarlet fever in children. Therefore, there is a lot of lysozyme in breast milk.

But in gram-negative microbes, their thin cell wall is hidden between two membranes. Well, roughly, like a double-glazed window in the windows. Therefore, lysozyme is not very effective against gram-negative microbes. Therefore, a large amount of lysozyme in chicken eggs does not affect the gram-negative salmonella that live in these eggs. We are with you

Lysine

It is an amino acid. They wanted to adapt it for the treatment of herpes. Because lysine can disrupt the balance of amino acids that the herpes virus needs to reproduce. But somehow it didn't work out very well.

The name of lysine also has that Greek root, which means dissolution and decomposition. But not because it dissolves someone, but because lysine itself was obtained by dissolving casein.

For this we must be grateful to the German chemist Edmund Drexel, who at the end of the nineteenth century obtained lysine from casein. Drexel passed gases through the liquid, and since then such a washing bulb-bulb has been named after him.

In short, lysozyme dissolves the cell wall of microbes, and lysine is made by dissolving casein. Available?