title: [Role of the lysozyme-like enzyme of staphylococci in their pathogenicity].
abstract: Observations of the authors of the present work permit to put forward the following suppositions on the biological significance of the lysozyme sign included into the number of sign-of the staphylococcus pathogenicity: 1) the action of the lysozyme-like enzyme (LLE) as a facs for increasing the permeability of the cell wall and thus promoting the exit of the "pathogenicity enzymes"; 2) its participation in the growth and division of staphylococci, pointing to the differences in the rate of the growth of the cultures forming and nonforming the LLE; 3) participation of the LLE in the microbial antagonism processes--crude LLE (in the form of lipoproteid complex) stipulated the antimicrobial effect against a number of nonpathogenic microbes. None of these hypotheses can be accepted without further investigations, particularly with the purified enzyme.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000898:Antibiosis; D002473:Cell Wall / Q000502:physiology; D051379:Mice; D009113:Muramidase / Q000502:physiology*; D010539:Permeability; D013045:Species Specificity; D013210:Staphylococcus / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000472:pathogenicity; D014774:Virulence
chemical_list: D009113:Muramidase
vernacular_title: O znachenii lizotsimopodobnogo fermenta stafilokokkov v ikh patogennosti