Lysis From Within

Abedon, Stephen T.

doi:10.5281/zenodo.20173633

🔬 Lysis From Within

Phage-mediated destruction of class="bap-term">bacterial cell envelopes as mediated for the sake of phage-progeny release.

by Stephen T. Abedon Ph.D. (abedon.1@osu.edu)

About this entry: Lysis From Within is one of a growing set of phage biology and phage therapy terms defined here. For more phage terms, see Abedon, S.T. (2025). Phage Therapy Annotated Glossary. Preprints.org. 10.20944/preprints202508.0347.v1

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Lysis From Within: Phage-mediated destruction of class="bap-term">bacterial cell envelopes as mediated for the sake of phage-progeny release.

Discussion

<p>Lysis from within occurs by a variety of mechanism all of which ultimately entail disruption of the bacterial cell wall, at least in those bacteria that possess cell walls. The lysis process is required to allow translocation of phage progeny virions found within infected bacteria out into the extracellular environment.

Numerous reviews considering lysis from within have been authored by Ry Young including nih.gov/pubmed/1406491" class="bap-term" target=_blank>Young (1992), Young and Bläsi (1995), Young (2005), and Young and Wang (2006).

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Young (1992)
Young and Bläsi (1995)
Young (2005).
Young and Wang (2006).

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Abedon, S.T. (2026). Phage Terms. https://terms.phage.org · 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

[1] Young (1992)

[2] Young and Bläsi (1995)

[3] Young (2005).

[4] Young and Wang (2006).

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