and some mollusks which live on bacteria further lysozyme has the function of inhibiting tumor growth in 1955 caselli and shumacher boll ocul 34 513 533 1955 reported on the lysozyme mediated 70 inhibition of neoplastic transformation in cornea of chicken infected by rous sarcoma virus many other experiments indicated that lysozyme participates in the process of tumor diffusion and interacts with phospho and glucolipid molecule of tumor cells the inhibition effect on human tumor of lysozyme was reported and patented 1980 jpn kokai tokkyo koho 33 409 1980 jpn kokai tokkyo koho 33 408 as to the mechanism of lysozyine inhibition on tumor there are two possibilities 1 lysozyme directly activates the organism 39 s immunity functions 2 lysozyme indirectly enhances the organism 39 s immune ability 1989 anticancer research 9 583 592 fig1 a and 1b shows an alignment of amino acid sequence of human lyc2 with lysozyme c of ringnecked pheasant sp p00702 and lysozyme c of red guenon sp p30200 respectively identical amino acid are indicated by u201c u201d and similar amino acids are indicated by u201c u201d similar amino acids are a s and t and e n and q r and k i l m and v and f y and w fig2 a and 2b show.