Lyophilized powder, protein ≥90 %, ≥40,000 units/mg protein, Synonym: Mucopeptide N-acetylmuramoylhydrolase, Muramidase. Enzyme breaks down the cell walls of bacteria; used to prepare spheroplasts. Lysozyme from chicken egg white has been used for the extraction of genomic DNA from bacterial cells. It has been used as an external standard for MALDI-TOF (matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight) mass analysis.