Autolysis (biology)
The destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In biology, autolysis, more commonly known as self-digestion, refers to the destruction of a cell through the action of its own enzymes. It may also refer to the digestion of an enzyme by another molecule of the same enzyme.
The term derives from the Greek αὐτο- 'self' and λύσις 'splitting'.