EC 3.2.1.17: Lysozyme
Reaction catalysed:
Hydrolysis of (1->4)-beta-linkages between N-acetylmuramic acid and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues in a peptidoglycan and between N-acetyl-D-glucosamine residues in chitodextrins
Systematic name:
Peptidoglycan N-acetylmuramoylhydrolase
Alternative Name(s):
- 1,4-N-acetylmuramidase
- Globulin G
- Globulin G1
- L-7001
- Lysozyme g
- Mucopeptide N-acetylmuramoylhydrolase
- Mucopeptide glucohydrolase
- Muramidase
- N,O-diacetylmuramidase
- PR1-lysozyme
GO terms
Biochemical function:
Biological process:
- symbiont entry into host cell via disruption of host cell envelope
- symbiont entry into host cell via disruption of host cell wall peptidoglycan
- viral tail assembly
- symbiont entry into host cell
- symbiont entry into host
- defense response to bacterium
- killing of cells of another organism
- cell wall macromolecule catabolic process
- peptidoglycan catabolic process
- metabolic process