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Lysostaphin

Known as: Lysostaphin [Chemical/Ingredient] 
A 25-kDa peptidase produced by Staphylococcus simulans which cleaves a glycine-glcyine bond unique to an inter-peptide cross-bridge of the… 
National Institutes of Health

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Anti-Infective Agents, Local
BacteriolysisIn Bloodagonistsanalogs & derivatives

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2009
2009
Shared catalysis in virus entry and bacterial cell wall depolymerization.
2007
2007
Lysostaphin in Treatment of Neonatal Staphylococcus aureus Infection
ABSTRACT This study describes lysostaphin's effect against methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus in suckling rats. Standard… 
2003
2003
In Vitro Activity of Recombinant Lysostaphin against Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Anterior Nares and Blood
ABSTRACT The in vitro activity of recombinant lysostaphin was tested against a collection of well-characterized clinical… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Antimicrobial strategies for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular infections.
  • E. FuruyaF. Lowy
  • Current opinion in pharmacology (Print)
  • 2003
  • Corpus ID: 42466703
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Sequence analysis of a Staphylococcus aureus gene encoding a peptidoglycan hydrolase activity.
1986
1986
Development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for staphylococcal protein A produced in Escherichia coli by pUC8 based plasmids containing the Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I protein A gene.
1983
1983
The influence of lysostaphin on phagocytosis, intracellular bactericidal activity, and chemotaxis of human polymorphonuclear cells.
Lysostaphin, a microbicidal enzyme that lyses Staphylococcus aureus, was introduced to study phagocytosis and ICBA (Tan et al.3… 
1982
1982
High-level potentiation of lysostaphin anti-staphylococcal activity by lysozyme
The purpose of this study was to determine whether lysostaphin would enhance its anti-staphylococcal efficacy in combination with… 
Highly Cited
1971
Highly Cited
1971
Nuclease Production and Lysostaphin Susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus and Other Catalase-Positive Cocci
Some strains of Staphylococcus epidermidis and Micrococcus sp. produce nucleases. However, thermal stability was shown to be… 
1969
1969
Staphylococcal spheroplasts and L-colonies. 3. Induction by lysostaphin.
The bacteriolytic enzyme, lysostaphin, first discovered by Schindler and Schuhardt [1, 2], has the unique property of rapidly and… 
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