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The hypothesis that penicillin acts as an active-site inhibitor cell wall biosynthesis was tested by a method of partial proteolytic mapping of penicillin-binding sites versus substrate-binding sites in cell wall D-alanine carboxypeptidases. This enzyme was obtained from four genera of bacteria, purified, and tested.
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