A synthetic peptide for use as a blocking control in assays to test for specificity of LYZ antibody, Alternative Names: LYZ control peptide, LYZ antibody Blocking Peptide, Anti-LYZ Blocking Peptide, lysozyme, renal amyloidosis Blocking Peptide, LZM Blocking Peptide, lysozyme Blocking Peptide
LYZ is a human lysozyme, whose natural substrate is the bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan (cleaving the beta[1-4]glycosidic linkages between N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetylglucosamine). Lysozyme is one of the anti-microbial agents found in human milk, and is also present in spleen, lung, kidney, white blood cells, plasma, saliva, and tears. Missense mutations in LYZ have been identified in heritable renal amyloidosis.