Mycobacterial lipid II is composed of a complex mixture of modified muramyl and peptide moieties linked to decaprenyl phosphate

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2747-2757

  Mahapatra, Sebabrata ^a   Yagi, Tetsuya ^a,b   Belisle, John T ^a   Espinosa, Benjamin J ^a   Hill, Preston J ^a   McNeil, Michael R ^a   Brennan, Patrick J ^a   Crick, Dean C ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; DECAPRENYL PHOSPHATE; DEXTRO ALANINE; DIAMINOPIMELIC ACID; LIPID; LIPID I; LIPID II; MURAMIC ACID; MURAMYL PEPTIDE; N ACETYLMURAMYLARGININE DEXTRO GLUTAMATE DIAMINOPIMELIC ACID DEXTRO ALANYL DEXTRO ALANINE; N GLYCOLOYLMURAMIC ACID; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CELL WALL; MYCOBACTERIUM; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATES; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE N-ACETYLMURAMIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 16844383874     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.8.2747-2757.2005     Document Type: Article

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