Studies on prolysostaphin processing and characterization of the lysostaphin immunity factor (Lif) of Staphylococcus simulans biovar staphylolyticus
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- 1 March 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 23 (6), 1251-1265
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.2911657.x
Abstract
Lysostaphin is an extracellular glycylglycine endopep-tidase produced by Staphylococcus simulans biovar staphylolyticus ATCC1362 that lyses staphylococcal cells by hydrolysing the polyglycine interpe...Keywords
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