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Resistance to mucosal lysozyme compensates for the fitness deficit of peptidoglycan modifications by Streptococcus pneumoniae.

PLoS pathogens - 1 Dec 2008

Davis Kimberly M, Akinbi Henry T, Standish Alistair J, Weiser Jeffrey N

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The abundance of lysozyme on mucosal surfaces suggests that successful colonizers must be able to evade its antimicrobial effects. Lysozyme has a muramidase activity that hydrolyzes bacterial peptidoglycan and a non-muramidase activity attributable to its function as a cationic antimicrobial pept...

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PMID: 19079576
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000241
PMCID: PMC2587705

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