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  2. Alexander Fleming - Wikipedia

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    The lysozyme was first noticed during some investigations made on a patient suffering from acute coryza. [15] This was the first recorded discovery of lysozyme. With Allison, he published further studies on lysozyme in October issue of the British Journal of Experimental Pathology the same year. [17]

  3. Lysozyme - Wikipedia

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    Lysozyme (EC 3.2.1.17, ... This hydrolysis in turn compromises the integrity of bacterial cell walls causing lysis of the bacteria. Lysozyme is ... it was discovered ...

  4. Edward Abraham - Wikipedia

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    Abraham completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Sir Robert Robinson, during which he was the first to crystallise lysozyme, [1] [7] an enzyme discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming and shown to have antibacterial properties, and was later the first enzyme to have its structure solved using X-ray crystallography, by ...

  5. Discovery of penicillin - Wikipedia

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    In the contaminated plate the bacteria around the mould did not grow, while those farther away grew normally, meaning that the mould killed the bacteria. [6] Fleming commented as he watched the plate: "That's funny". [5] [6] Pryce remarked to Fleming: "That's how you discovered lysozyme."

  6. History of biochemistry - Wikipedia

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    Which he did. Krebs discovered the urea cycle and later, working with Hans Kornberg, the citric acid cycle and the glyoxylate cycle. [28] [29] [30] These discoveries led to Krebs being awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology in 1953, [31] which was shared with the German biochemist Fritz Albert Lipmann who also codiscovered the essential cofactor ...

  7. Bacteriologist - Wikipedia

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    He discovered the antibacterial enzyme lysozyme in 1923. Later he isolated and studied the antibiotic substance penicillin from the mold Penicillium notatum in 1928. Hans Christian Joachim Gram was a Danish bacteriologist who developed the Gram stain .

  8. Enzyme - Wikipedia

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    This was first done for lysozyme, an enzyme found in tears, saliva and egg whites that digests the coating of some bacteria; the structure was solved by a group led by David Chilton Phillips and published in 1965. [18]

  9. List of microbiologists - Wikipedia

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    Pioneer of bacterial metabolism. 1871–1957 Kiyoshi Shiga: Japanese Discovered a bacterium causing an outbreak of dysentery. [2] [7] 1856-1953 Sergei Winogradsky: Ukrainian Discovered the first known forms of chemoautotrophy, in particular lithotrophy and chemosynthesis. Invented the Winogradsky column technique for the study of sediment microbes.