Dynamic Motion and Communication in the Streptococcal C1 Phage Lysin, PlyC.

The growing problem of antibiotic resistance underlies the critical need to develop new treatments to prevent and control resistant bacterial infection. Exogenous application of bacteriophage lysins results in rapid and specific destruction of Gram-positive bacteria and therefore lysins represent no...

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Main Authors: Blake T Riley, Sebastian S Broendum, Cyril F Reboul, Nathan P Cowieson, Mauricio G S Costa, Itamar Kass, Colin Jackson, David Perahia, Ashley M Buckle, Sheena McGowan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4607406?pdf=render