The LytC lysozyme of Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterial cell wall hydrolase that cleaves the beta1-4-glycosydic bond located between the N-acetylmuramoyl-N-glucosaminyl residues of the cell wall polysaccharide chains. LytC is composed of a C-terminal glycosyl hydrolase family 25 (GH25) domain and an N-terminal choline-binding module (CBM) consisting of eleven homologous repeats that specifically recognizes the choline residues of pneumococcal lipoteichoic and teichoic acids. This domain arrangement is the reverse of the major pneumococcal autolysin, LytA, and the CPL-1-like lytic enzymes of the pneumococcal bacteriophages, in which the CBM (consisting of six repeats) is at the C-terminus. This model represents the C-terminal catalytic domain of the LytC-like enzymes.

pneumococcal surface protein A. The pneumococcal surface protein proteins, found in Streptococcus pneumoniae, are repetitive, with patterns of localized high sequence identity across pairs of proteins given different specific names that recombination may be presumed. This protein, PspA, has an N-terminal region that lacks a cross-wall-targeting YSIRK type extended signal peptide, in contrast to the closely related choline-binding protein CbpA which has a similar C-terminus but a YSIRK-containing region at the N-terminus.

pneumococcal surface protein A. The pneumococcal surface protein proteins, found in Streptococcus pneumoniae, are repetitive, with patterns of localized high sequence identity across pairs of proteins given different specific names that recombination may be presumed. This protein, PspA, has an N-terminal region that lacks a cross-wall-targeting YSIRK type extended signal peptide, in contrast to the closely related choline-binding protein CbpA which has a similar C-terminus but a YSIRK-containing region at the N-terminus.

pneumococcal surface protein A. The pneumococcal surface protein proteins, found in Streptococcus pneumoniae, are repetitive, with patterns of localized high sequence identity across pairs of proteins given different specific names that recombination may be presumed. This protein, PspA, has an N-terminal region that lacks a cross-wall-targeting YSIRK type extended signal peptide, in contrast to the closely related choline-binding protein CbpA which has a similar C-terminus but a YSIRK-containing region at the N-terminus.

pneumococcal surface protein PspC, choline-binding form. The pneumococcal surface protein PspC, as described in Streptococcus pneumoniae, is a repetitive and highly variable protein, recognized by a conserved N-terminal domain and also by genomic location. This form, subgroup 1, has variable numbers of a choline-binding repeat in the C-terminal region, and is also known as choline-binding protein A. The other form, subgroup 2, is anchored covalently after cleavage by sortase at a C-terminal LPXTG site.

3D-structureof the modular autolysin LytC from Streptococcus pneumoniae at 1.6 A resolution [Streptococcus pneumoniae R6],2WWD_A 3D-structure of the modular autolysin LytC from Streptococcus pneumoniae in complex with pneummococcal peptidoglycan fragment [Streptococcus pneumoniae R6]

3D-structureof the modular autolysin LytC from Streptococcus pneumoniae in complex with synthetic peptidoglycan ligand [Streptococcus pneumoniae R6]

X-raystructure of catalytic domain of endolysin from clostridium perfringens phage phiSM101 [Clostridium phage phiSM101]

X-raystructure of endolysin from clostridium perfringens phage phiSM101 [Clostridium phage phiSM101],4KRT_B X-ray structure of endolysin from clostridium perfringens phage phiSM101 [Clostridium phage phiSM101]

Crystalstructure of the bacterial lysozyme from Streptomyces coelicolor at 1.65 A resolution [Streptomyces coelicolor]

Lysozyme M1 OS=Streptomyces globisporus OX=1908 GN=acm PE=1 SV=1

Probable autolytic lysozyme OS=Clostridium perfringens (strain 13 / Type A) OX=195102 GN=lyc PE=3 SV=2