Bacteriophage-associated lyase activity
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Neil Ravenscroft; Alistair M. Stephen; Edwin H. Merrifield
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Article
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1987
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Bacteriophage 464 possesses a lyase that depolymerises the capsular polysaccharide of Klebsiella K64 into a hexasaccharide having an unsaturated derivative of glucuronic acid at the non-reducing end (1). The unsaturated hex-4-enuronic acid residue generated was characterised spectroscopically (u.v.