Hyaluronidase in Staphylococcus aureus physiology and pathogenesis
Staphylococcus aureus encodes for a secreted hyaluronidase, hysA. Hyaluronidases are bacterial enzymes that cleave hyaluronic acid (HA) at the β-1,4 glycosidic bond, yielding unsaturated disaccharides. Initially, little was known about the regulation of this enzyme as well as its roles in S. aureus...
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University of Iowa
2015
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5778 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7268&context=etd |