Low‐Molecular‐Weight Substrate for the Lysozyme of T4 Bacteriophage
- 28 June 1979
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 96 (3), 581-584
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1979.tb13072.x
Abstract
It has been shown that muropeptide CB, the chemically defined product of Escherichia coli B murein digestion by phage lambda endolysin, is the substrate for T4 lysozyme. This is the tetrasaccharide GlcNAc-MurNAc-GlcNAc-anMurNAc in which the carboxyl groups of MurNAc and anMurNAc residues are substituted by tetrapeptide LAla-DGlu-msA2pm-DAla (MurNAc = N-acetylmuramic acid, GlcNAc = N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, anMurNAc = 1,6-anhydro-N-acetylmuramic acid, LAla = L-alanine, DGlu = D-glutamic acid, msA2pm = meso-diaminopimelic acid). The substrate contains one bond hydrolysable by T4 lysozyme. The products of hydrolysis are the easily identifiable disaccharide muropeptides C6 (GlcNAc-MurNAc-LAla-DGlu-msA2pm-DAla) and CA (GlcNAc-anMurNac-LAla-DGlu-msA2pm-DAla). Thus the substrate may be used for the specific identification of murein N-acetylmuramoylhydrolases of the T4 lysozyme type, as well as for any quantitative measurement of the enzymatic reaction.Keywords
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