Resistance to Mucosal Lysozyme Compensates for the Fitness Deficit of Peptidoglycan Modifications by Streptococcus pneumoniae

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 peptide...

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Autores principales: Davis, Kimberly M., Akinbi, Henry T., Standish, Alistair J., Weiser, Jeffrey N.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2587705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19079576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000241

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2587705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19079576
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000241

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