Lysozyme activity in female genital tissues of normal and genetically lysozyme-deficient rabbits.
The internal genitalia of female normal rabbits and mutant lysozyme-deficient rabbits, which lack genetically the leukocytic isozyme of lysozyme, were assayed for lysozyme activity. The ovaries, uteri, and vaginas of the lysozyme-deficient rabbits had less than 20% of the lysozyme activity of normals. The oviducts, and in particular the caudal portions of the oviducts, had lysozyme activities up to 71% of the levels in normals. These observations suggest that the lysozymes of oviduct and leukocytes of rabbits are under the control of different genes.
D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005796:Genes; D005836:Genitalia, Female / Q000201:enzymology*; D007527:Isoenzymes / Q000032:analysis*; D007962:Leukocytes / Q000201:enzymology; D009113:Muramidase / Q000172:deficiency* / Q000235:genetics; D010057:Oviducts / Q000201:enzymology; D011817:Rabbits / Q000235:genetics
D007527:Isoenzymes; D009113:Muramidase