Vollmer Waldemar, Tomasz Alexander
Laboratory of Microbiology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA.
Infect Immun. 2002 Dec;70(12):7176-8. doi: 10.1128/IAI.70.12.7176-7178.2002.
Many glucosamine residues of the pneumococcal peptidoglycan (PG) are not acetylated, which makes the PG resistant to lysozyme. A capsular type III mutant with an inactivated pgdA gene (encoding the peptidoglycan N-acetylglucosamine deacetylase A) became hypersensitive to exogenous lysozyme and showed reduced virulence in the intraperitoneal mouse model.
肺炎球菌肽聚糖(PG)的许多氨基葡萄糖残基未被乙酰化,这使得PG对溶菌酶具有抗性。一个pgdA基因(编码肽聚糖N - 乙酰葡糖胺脱乙酰酶A)失活的Ⅲ型荚膜突变体对外源溶菌酶变得高度敏感,并且在腹腔小鼠模型中显示出毒力降低。