Serum lysozyme levels were determined by a turbidometric method using egg white lysozyme as standard in 100 patients with Crohn's disease, 86 with ulcerative colitis, 31 with coeliac disease, and in 38 normal control subjects. Though the levels in Crohn's disease were significantly higher than those in ulcerative colitis and in coeliac disease, there was marked overlap between the disorders and...

Mergenhagen, Stephan E. (National Institute of Dental Research, Bethesda, Md.), and George R. Martin. Properties of a lysozyme-dissociated endotoxic fraction from Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 88:1169-1174. 1964.-Treatment of a phenol-water preparation of C(14)-labeled Escherichia coli O91-H21 endotoxin of low solubility with lysozyme at pH 5.0 or 8.0 effected a dissociation of the preparatio...

L YSOZYME, A CATIONIC POLYPEPTIDE of low molecular weight,’ is present in serum and in certain blood cells. The enzyme is found in granulocytes and monocytes but not in lymphocytes, red cells or platelets.23 Leukocyte lysozyme levels in general are increased in monocytic and decreased in lymphocytic leukemia.46 Varying levels have been reported in the myelocytic and monomyelocytic leukemias.4’T...

Ruminococcus champanellensis is a keystone species in the human gut that produces an intricate cellulosome system of various architectures. A variety of cellulosomal enzymes have been identified, which exhibit a range of hydrolytic activities on lignocellulosic substrates. We describe herein a unique R. champanellensis scaffoldin, ScaK, which is expressed during growth on cellobiose and compris...

Hen egg white lysozyme acted as the sole reducing agent and catalyzed the formation of silver nanoparticles in the presence of light. Stable silver colloids formed after mixing lysozyme and silver acetate in methanol and the resulting nanoparticles were concentrated and transferred to aqueous solution without any significant changes in physical properties. Activity and antimicrobial assays demo...

The objective of the study was to investigate antimicrobial activity of native and reduced forms of duck lysozyme (dLz) against Salmonella enteritidis. Moreover, antimicrobial activity of dLz was compared with chicken lysozyme (cLz). The purified dLz was reduced with dithiothreitol. Free SH groups of reduced dLz were trapped with iodoacetamide. Lytic activity against Micrococcus luteus of reduc...

The amino acid sequence of satyr tragopan lysozyme and its activity was analyzed. Carboxymethylated lysozyme was digested with trypsin and the resulting peptides were sequenced. The established amino acid sequence had three amino acid substitutions at positions 103 (Asn to Ser), 106 (Ser to Asn), and 121 (His to Gln) comparing with Temminck's tragopan lysozyme and five amino acid substitutions ...

The objective of this study was to develop a new antimicrobial film, in which lysozyme was covalently attached onto two different ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers (EVOH 29 and EVOH 44). The EVOH surface was modified with UV irradiation treatment to generate carboxylic acid groups, and lysozyme was covalently attached to the functionalized polymer surface. Surface characterization of control an...

A high-expression plasmid of the canine milk lysozyme, which belongs to the family of calcium-binding lysozymes, was constructed in order to study its physico-chemical properties. Because the cDNA sequence of the protein has not yet been determined, a 400 base-pair gene encoding canine milk lysozyme was first designed on the basis of the known amino acid sequence. The gene was constructed by an...

This Application Note used hen egg white lysozyme as a model protein for purifi cation and biophysical characterization of PEGylated proteins. PEGylation to the N-terminus of lysozyme in a site-specifi c manner was achieved using PEG-propionaldehyde derivatives with a molecular weight of Mw 20,000. A semi-preparative RP-HPLC method for the purifi cation of PEGylated lysozyme was developed using...