Viruses (Jan 2019)

Phage Lytic Enzymes

  • Yves Briers

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/v11020113
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 2
p. 113

Abstract

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Phage lytic enzymes are enzymes produced by bacterial viruses, either as part of their virion to facilitate bacterial infection through local peptidoglycan degradation, or as soluble proteins to induce massive cell lysis at the end of the lytic replication cycle [...]

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