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SUBMITTER: Yamashita Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC103797 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yamashita Y Y Shibata Y Y Nakano Y Y Tsuda H H Kido N N Ohta M M Koga T T
Journal of bacteriology 19991001 20
Gene rgpG is required for biosynthesis of rhamnose-glucose polysaccharide (RGP) in Streptococcus mutans. Its deduced amino acid sequence had similarity to WecA, which initiates syntheses of enterobacterial common antigen and some O antigens in Escherichia coli. Gene rgpG complemented a wecA mutation of E. coli, suggesting that rgpG may function similarly in RGP synthesis. ...[more]