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Lysozyme
Lysozyme is in your tears, spit, and snot. It pops open the walls of bacteria before they can make you sick.
Fun fact
A scientist named Fleming found it by accident. His nose dripped onto a dish of germs.
Words to know
enzymeimmune system
NGSS alignment
MS-LS1-3Body as a system
Structure
Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P61626. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P61626.
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