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Endopeptidase Activity of Phage λ-Endolysin

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JACOB and Fuerst1,2 demonstrated the presence of a bacteriolytic enzyme (λ-endolysin) in the induced cultures of lysogenic Escherichia coli K12 (λ). The enzyme was later identified as the product of gene R; of phage λ3 which is involved in bacterial lysis at the end of a latent period. The enzyme is apt to form spheroplast-like structures in E. coli2, and one would therefore expect its substrate to be murein.

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TAYLOR, A. Endopeptidase Activity of Phage λ-Endolysin. Nature New Biology 234, 144–145 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/newbio234144a0

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