The ruminant digestion model using bacteria already employed early in evolution by symbiotic molluscs.
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.
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Laboratory of Proteins, University of Paris V, 45, rue des Saints-Pères, F 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France.
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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
D009113:Muramidase