Lysozymes from Bacteriophages T3 and T5

Overview

Journal J Virol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Date 1975 Aug 1

PMID 1097738

Citations 5

Authors

M Demartini

S Halegoua

M Inouye

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Abstract

Lysozymes produced in host cells infected with bacteriophages T3 and T5 were found to have the same enzymatic specificity toward the peptidoglycan from Escherichia coli as T7 phage lysozyme, which has been shown to be an N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine amidase.

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