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Literature summary for 3.2.1.17 extracted from

  • Szewczyk, B.; Skorko, R.
    Lysozyme activity of bacteriophage T4 ghosts (1981), Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 662, 131-137.
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Metals/Ions

Metals/Ions Comment Organism Structure
Mg2+ no effect: ghost lysozyme Tequatrovirus T4

Natural Substrates/ Products (Substrates)

Natural Substrates Organism Comment (Nat. Sub.) Natural Products Comment (Nat. Pro.) Rev. Reac.
peptidoglycan + H2O Tequatrovirus T4 cell lysis from within, at the end of latent period, cell lysis from without, at the beginning of infection ?
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?

Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Tequatrovirus T4
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enzyme is product of e gene for lysis from within, or gene 5 for lysis from without
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Substrates and Products (Substrate)

Substrates Comment Substrates Organism Products Comment (Products) Rev. Reac.
additional information phage T4: e lysozyme more specific than hen egg-white lysozyme, e lysozyme: hydrolysis of murein chains in which N-acetylmuraminic acid is substituted by peptide side chains L-Ala-D-Glu-meso-diaminopimelic acid-D-Ala Tequatrovirus T4 ?
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?
peptidoglycan + H2O cell lysis from within, at the end of latent period, cell lysis from without, at the beginning of infection Tequatrovirus T4 ?
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?
peptidoglycan + H2O
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Tequatrovirus T4 N-acetylaminosaccharides C3 and C6 muropeptides ?

Temperature Stability [°C]

Temperature Stability Minimum [°C] Temperature Stability Maximum [°C] Comment Organism
45
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inactivation above, 10 min Tequatrovirus T4

pH Optimum

pH Optimum Minimum pH Optimum Maximum Comment Organism
5.5 6
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Tequatrovirus T4
7.6
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Tequatrovirus T4

pH Range

pH Minimum pH Maximum Comment Organism
2.5 8.5
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Tequatrovirus T4