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Exploiting the peptidoglycan-binding motif, LysM, for medical and industrial applications

The lysin motif (LysM) was first identified by Garvey et al. in 1986 and, in subsequent studies, has been shown to bind noncovalently to peptidoglycan and chitin by interacting with N-acetylglucosamine moieties. The LysM sequence is present singly or repeatedly in a large number of proteins of proka...

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Autores principales: Visweswaran, Ganesh Ram R., Leenhouts, Kees, van Roosmalen, Maarten, Kok, Jan, Buist, Girbe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4004799/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24652063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00253-014-5633-7