Selective lysis of cultures and cell walls of penicillin-resistant but not penicillin-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae strains by a murein hydrolase complex. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A murein hydrolase complex selectively lysed cultures of penicillin-resistant pneumococci and their cell walls in which the majority of muropeptide subunits were indirectly cross-linked through oligopeptide substituents (alanyl-alanine or alanyl-serine) on the epsilon-amino group of the stem peptide lysine residues. Walls of penicillin-susceptible strains were not hydrolyzed.

publication date

  • June 1, 1995

Research

keywords

  • Bacteriolysis
  • Cell Wall
  • N-Acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine Amidase
  • Peptide Hydrolases
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC177026

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0029073144

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1128/jb.177.11.3316-3319.1995

PubMed ID

  • 7768833

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 177

issue

  • 11