06. Lysozymes
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Where are lysozymes found?
Found in tears and other secretions
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What are lysozymes functions?
To destroy pathogenic bacteria by breaking down its cell walls
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What is the bacterial cell wall?
A polysaccharide containing chains of amino acids
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How do lysozymes break down the bacterial cell wall?
By breaking glycosidic bonds between amino sugars
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What does X ray diffraction show?
Shows there’s a groove on one side of the lysozyme molecule
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What fits into the lysozyme groove?
Section of polysaccharide (6 amino acids long)
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How does the lysozyme work?
Substrate held by hydrogen + ionic bonds, polysaccharide broken at specific site each time
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What kind of reaction are lysozymes?
Catabolic
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