In enzymology, a N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase (EC 3.5.1.28) is an enzyme that catalyzes a chemical reaction that cleaves the link between N-acetylmuramoyl residues and L-amino acid residues in certain cell-wall glycopeptides.
This enzyme belongs to the family of hydrolases, specifically those acting on carbon-nitrogen bonds other than peptide bonds in linear amides.
The systematic name of this enzyme class is peptidoglycan amidohydrolase.
Autolysins and some phage lysins are examples of N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidases.
This EC 3.5 enzyme-related article is a stub.