1. Lysins for other dangerous microbes could be added to the sensing devices.2. A lysin -based anthrax detector is closer at hand. 3. Catalytic domains are highly conserved in phage lysins of the same class. 4. But the scientists have a prototype of a lysin -based anthrax detector. 5. Many steps remain before a usable therapy can be developed from the lysin . 6. The lysin is applied to the emerging bacteria, making them spill out their contents. 7. Scientists at Rockefeller University see the gamma phage lysin as a powerful weapon against anthrax. 8. In order to reach the cell wall, phage lysins have to cross the cell membrane. 9. Autolysins and some phage lysins are examples of N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidases. 10. Attack strains of anthrax can be made resistant to antibiotics, but not to lysin , Fischetti said.
