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These proteins were analysed<jats:italic>in vivo<\/jats:italic>by assaying their ability to complement the DNA transfer defect of the conjugative F-like plasmid R1-16 lacking a functional P19 protein, the specialized lytic transglycosylase of this type IV secretion system. Heterologous complementation was accomplished using IpgF from the plasmid-encoded type III secretion system of<jats:italic>Shigella sonnei<\/jats:italic>and TrbN from the type IV secretion system of the conjugative plasmid RP4. In contrast, neither VirB1 proteins (<jats:italic>Agrobacterium tumefaciens<\/jats:italic>,<jats:italic>Brucella suis<\/jats:italic>) nor IagB (<jats:italic>Salmonella enterica<\/jats:italic>) could functionally replace P19.<jats:italic>In vitro<\/jats:italic>, IpgF, IagB, both VirB1 proteins, HP0523 (<jats:italic>Helicobacter pylori<\/jats:italic>) and P19 displayed peptidoglycanase activity in zymogram analyses. Using an established test system and a newly developed assay it was shown that IpgF degraded peptidoglycan in solution. IpgF was active only after removal of the chaperonin GroEL, which co-purified with IpgF and inhibited its enzymic activity. A mutant IpgF protein in which the predicted catalytic amino acid, Glu42, was replaced by Gln, was completely inactive. 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