Degradation of Citrobacter O-Serogroup Ci23Vi+ murein with Vi phages.
Dialysable products resulting from the digestion of the Citrobacter O-Serogroup Ci23Vi+ murein with Vi phages show a decrease of their reducing power/muropeptides. It is accompanied with an increase of free amino groups amount/muropeptide when compared to the one obtained after the lysozyme treatment. It leads to a suggestion, that Vi phage particles possess two enzyme activities: "lysozyme-like" and deacetylase which might be a transacetylase.
D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D002954:Citrobacter / Q000378:metabolism*; D008242:Lysogeny; D009113:Muramidase / Q000378:metabolism; D010455:Peptides / Q000032:analysis; D010457:Peptidoglycan / Q000378:metabolism*
D010455:Peptides; D010457:Peptidoglycan; D009113:Muramidase