a total of 1695 blood samples collected from ten ethnically distinct populations of iran (turks and kurds of rezaieh, lurs, aabolis, baluchis, turks and kurds of shrvan, zoroastrians, tehranis, and kermanis) were examined for six polymorphic red cell enzyme systems, namely red cell acid phosphatase (ap), adenylate kinase (ak), phosphoglucomutase (pgm1), esteraxe d (esd), adenosine deaminase (ad...

The recently discovered lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs) are known to carry out oxidative cleavage of glycoside bonds in chitin and cellulose, thus boosting the activity of well-known hydrolytic depolymerizing enzymes. Because biomass-degrading microorganisms tend to produce a plethora of LPMOs, and considering the complexity and copolymeric nature of the plant cell wall, it has been...

Lactococcus lactis is a gram-positive bacterium that is widely used in the food industry and is therefore desirable as a candidate for the production and secretion of recombinant proteins. Previously, we generated a L. lactis strain that expressed and secreted the antimicrobial cell wall-lytic enzyme lysostaphin. To identify lactococcal gene products that affect the production of lysostaphin, w...

Inducible plant defence responses include antimicrobial compounds called phytoalexins, lytic enzymes, oxidizing agents, cell wall lignification and a number of pathogenesis related proteins. The antimicrobial properties of phytoalexins suggest that they are an important component of plant defence. A role for these compounds in defence has been revealed through several experimental approaches. D...

The need for new classes of antibacterials is genuine in light the dearth clinical options treatment bacterial infections. prodigious discoveries antibiotics during 1940s to 1970s, a period wistfully referred as Golden Age Antibiotics, have not kept up face emergence resistant bacteria past few decades. There has been renewed interest old drugs, repurposing existing and pairing synergistic or a...