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PEGylating a bacteriophage endolysin inhibits its bactericidal activity
Bacteriophage endolysins (lysins) bind to a cell wall substrate and cleave peptidoglycan, resulting in hypotonic lysis of the phage-infected bacteria. When purified lysins are added externally to Gram-positive bacteria they mediate rapid death by the same mechanism. For this reason, novel therapeuti...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222324/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21982426 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2191-0855-1-29 |