@proceedings {2192,
	title = {Oxygen Radicals, Proteinases and Polyanions Modulate Bacteriolysis by Leukocytes},
	journal = {Surface Structures of Microorganisms and Their Interactions with the Mammalian Host},
	year = {1987},
	pages = {209-225},
	abstract = {The mechanisms of biodegradation of microbial cell wall components is
discussed. Employing Staphylococcus aureus as a model it is proposed that
bacteriolysis following phagocytosis is mediated by the activation by leukocyte
cationic proteins of the bacterial own autolytic wall enzymes. The role of
lysozyme in bacteriolysis might not be due to its muramidase activity but to its
cationic nature. A variety of sulfated polysaccharides, proteinases and oxygen
radicals which might be present in inflamed tissues might inactivate the
bacterial autolytic wall enzymes leading to the persistence of highly-phlogistic
peptidoglycan-polysaccharide complexes within macrophages and to tissue damage.},
	author = {Isaac Ginsburg and M. Lahav}
}
