Nature 207, 1309 - 1310 (18 September 1965); doi:10.1038/2071309a0

Lysozyme and Immune Bacteriolysis

A. A. GLYNN & CELIA M. MILNE

The Wright-Fleming Institute, St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, W.2.

IT has long been accepted that the lysis of Gram-negative bacteria by fresh serum is due to the antibody-complement system. Over the past ten years three separate groups of workers have suggested, for different reasons, that lysozyme also plays a part in immune lysis of bacteria.

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