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Published on: August 13, 2011
The Enterococcus hirae Mur-2 enzyme displays N-acetylglucosaminidase activity
Catherine Eckert1, Sophie Magnet, Stéphane Mesnage
1INSERM, U655-LRMA, Centre de Recherches Biomédicales des Cordeliers, Paris, France.
Abstract:
Enterococcus hirae produces two autolytic enzymes named Mur-1 and Mur-2, both previously described as N-acetylmuramidases. We used tandem mass spectrometry to show that Mur-2 in fact displays N-acetylglucosaminidase activity. This result reveals that Mur-2 and its counterparts studied to date, which are members of glycosyl hydrolase family 73 from the CAZy (Carbohydrate-Active enZyme) database, display the same catalytic activity.
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