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MURAMIDASE

Glycosidase that hydrolyses the bond between N acetyl muramic acid and N acetyl glucosamine, thus cleaving an significant polymer of the cell wall of much bacteria. Gift in tears, saliva and in the lysomes of phagocytic cells, it is an significant antibacterial defence, particularly against gram-positive bacteria. This entry appears with alow from the Vocabulary of Cell and Molecular Biology
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