title: The ruminant digestion model using bacteria already employed early in evolution by symbiotic molluscs.
abstract: The purification and some molecular properties of six lysozymes from the gills of different mytilids and vesicomyids are described: they belong to the previously described Invertebrate lysozyme family. The predominance of the bacterial nutrition in these organisms seems to necessitate the presence of a lysozyme as in the case of the ruminant digestion model.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Proteins, University of Paris V, 45, rue des Saints-Pères, F 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jollès
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fiala-Médioni
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jollès
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria; D004063:Digestion; D005880:Gills / Q000201:enzymology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D008974:Mollusca / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000382:microbiology; D009113:Muramidase / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013279:Stomach, Ruminant / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000502:physiology; D013559:Symbiosis
chemical_list: D009113:Muramidase