Crossword clues for lyse
lyse
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1927, back-formation from lysis.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context biology English) To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis. 2 (context biochemistry English) To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis.
Wikipedia
Lyse may refer to:
- Lyse Abbey, a former Cistercian abbey in Norway
- Lyse, an alternative name of Lysebotn, Norway
- Lyse Energi, a Norwegian power company
- Łyse, Masovian Voivodeship, a village in east-central Poland
- Łyse, Podlaskie Voivodeship, a village in north-east Poland
- lyse is a verb referring to the process of lysis, the death of a cell by bursting
- Lyse (mythology), daughter of Thespius and Megamede in Greek mythology, who bore Heracles a son, Eumedes
- Lyse Doucet, Canadian journalist, presenter and correspondent for BBC World Service radio and BBC World television
- Lysine Exporter (LysE) Superfamily, classification of particular transport proteins
Usage examples of "lyse".
He's an innocent little blood cell lysed by unfair osmotic conditions.
A Terran enzyme in the mud could’ve lysed those pheromones, turned them into one of those compounds.
His overstrained legs and arms were trembling so uncontrollably that he was almost unable to help him self, and he was content to be handled like a half-para lysed invalid.
Damage or “stress” to a host bacterium may result in the transcription of the phage genes, which then replicate new phages, releasing them by lysing or breaking open the host.
Their tissues resisted the lysing enzymes of the predator plants, and anyway after the first itching stab or two the human prey would certainly wake up and go somewhere else.