Hevamine, a chitinase from the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis, cleaves peptidoglycan between the C-1 of N-acetylglucosamine and C-4 of N-acetylmuramic acid and therefore is not a lysozyme

FEBS Letters

Volumn 411, Issue 2-3, 1997, Pages 161-163

  Bokma, Evert ^a   Van Koningsveld, Gerrit A ^a   Jeronimus Stratingh, Margot ^b   Beintema, Jaap J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chitinase; Cleavage specificity; Lysozyme; Peptidoglycan

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; HEVAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; CHITINASE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MURAMIC ACIDS; MURAMIDASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PLANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TREES;

HEVEA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 0031567587     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-5793(97)00682-0     Document Type: Article

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