Application | Comment | Organism |
---|---|---|
food industry | the enzyme is used as antimicrobial substance or indicator in fish, meat, dairy, fruits, vegetables and wines or serving as the active component integrated into food packaging systems as well as other active functions in the food matrix | Gallus gallus |
Protein Variants | Comment | Organism |
---|---|---|
D52S | inactive | Gallus gallus |
Natural Substrates | Organism | Comment (Nat. Sub.) | Natural Products | Comment (Nat. Pro.) | Rev. | Reac. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
peptidoglycan + H2O | Gallus gallus | the enzyme cleaves the beta-(1,4)-glycosidic bond between N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetylglucosamine of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycans | ? | - |
? |
Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
---|---|---|---|
Gallus gallus | - |
- |
- |
Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
---|---|---|---|
egg white | - |
Gallus gallus | - |
Substrates | Comment Substrates | Organism | Products | Comment (Products) | Rev. | Reac. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
peptidoglycan + H2O | the enzyme cleaves the beta-(1,4)-glycosidic bond between N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetylglucosamine of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycans | Gallus gallus | ? | - |
? |
Subunits | Comment | Organism |
---|---|---|
? | x * 14000, SDS-PAGE | Gallus gallus |
? | x * 14300, calculated from amino acid sequence | Gallus gallus |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
---|---|---|
muramidase | - |
Gallus gallus |
N-acetylmuramic hydrolase | - |
Gallus gallus |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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physiological function | the high efficiency of lysozyme in inhibiting gram-positive bacteria is caused by its ability to cleave the beta-(1,4)-glycosidic bond between N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetylglucosamine of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycans | Gallus gallus |