Cell wall substrate specificity of six different lysozymes and lysozyme inhibitory activity of bacterial extracts

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-46

  Nakimbugwe, Dorothy ^a   Masschalck, Barbara ^a   Deckers, Daphne ^a   Callewaert, Lien ^a   Aertsen, Abram ^a   Michiels, Chris W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gram negative bacteria; Lysozyme inhibitors; Lysozymes; Substrate specificity

Indexed keywords

ENZYME INHIBITOR; LYSOZYME; LYSOZYME INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ENZYME INHIBITOR INTERACTION; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES GLOBISPORUS; THERMOSTABILITY;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CELL WALL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MICROCOCCUS; MURAMIDASE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANSER SP.; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEDERA; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; STREPTOMYCES GLOBISPORUS;

EID: 33646733873     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00240.x     Document Type: Article

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