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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2015 Nov 19;99(4):700–718. doi: 10.1111/mmi.13258

Figure 1. Lytic transglycosylase reaction.

Figure 1

Diagram showing the lytic transglycosylase reaction. Strand cleavage results in the formation of an anhMurNAc sugar at what would normally be the reducing end of the polysaccharide. Shown below the chemical structures are cartoon representations of the substrate and products.