The aim of this study was to elucidate the influences of parity, age and mineral and trace elementmixture-supplementation on the course of lysozyme activity in mare’s milk during early lactation period. The interrelationship between equine milk lysozyme activity and calcium content was also tested. Lysozyme activity was measured by the modified turbidimetric method using Micrococcus lysodeiktik...

Lysozyme activity increased in rats bearing the Jensen sarcoma transplantable tumor. The increase was maximal in the kidneys. Lysozyme activity in the lung and intestine was little affected by tumor growth. Removal of the tumor mass by surgery was followed by a rapid return to normal levels of renal lysozyme activity. A decrease also occurred if the tumor spontaneously regressed. Splenectomy pr...

Lysozyme is an abundant, cationic antimicrobial protein that plays an important role in pulmonary host defense. Increased concentration of lysozyme in the airspaces of transgenic mice enhanced bacterial killing whereas lysozyme deficiency resulted in increased bacterial burden and morbidity. Lysozyme degrades peptidoglycan in the bacterial cell wall leading to rapid killing of Gram-positive org...

T4 lysozyme was thought to destroy bacteria by its muramidase activity. However, we demonstrate here that amphipathic helix stretches in the C-terminus of T4 lysozyme mediate its bactericidal and fungistatic activities. In heat-denatured T4 lysozyme, the enzymatic activity is completely abolished but unexpectedly, the antimicrobial functions remain preserved. Small synthetic peptides correspond...

Lysozyme (E.C. 3.2.1.17) activity is reported from the malaria vector Anopheles stephensi. The activity was detected in the salivary gland and midgut using bacteriolytic radial diffusion assay. Spectrophotometric analysis indicated that higher level of lysozyme activity was maintained in both midgut and salivary gland tissues. The activity reached the highest level in 4-8 days old mosquitoes. G...

Reduced, denatured lysozyme tends to aggregate at neutral pH, and competition between productive folding and aggregation substantially reduces the efficiency of refolding (Goldberg, M.E., Rudolph, R., and Jaenicke, R. (1991) Biochemistry 30, 2790-2797). Protein disulfide isomerase (PDI), a catalyst of oxidative protein folding, has a variety of effects on the yield of native lysozyme during the...

Lysozyme is one of the most important factors of innate immunity and a unique enzybiotic in that it exerts not only antibacterial activity, but also antiviral, anti-inflammatory, anticancer and immunomodulatory activities. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether in vitro exposure to saponins can affect the release and production of lysozyme activity in human monocytic cells ...

In recent years, several oconjugation protocols have been developed to improve the functional properties of the enzyme lysozyme. In this study, the optimum conditions of lysozyme – oxidized inulin conjugation and functional properties of the modified lysozyme were investigated. Initially, inulin (MW about 25 kDa) was oxidized by periodate to provide the reactive carbonyl groups  to attach to am...

The complexation of lysozyme and sodium (sulfamate carboxylate) isoprene/ethylene oxide (SCIEO) at pH = 7.4 and the release of lysozyme from the complexes in the presence of NaCl were investigated. Through electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions, lysozyme and SCIEO form stable complex nanoparticles. The complexation partially disturbs the structure of lysozyme. Some of the hydrophobic residu...