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SUBMITTER: Etienne G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2668396 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Etienne Gilles G Malaga Wladimir W Laval Françoise F Lemassu Anne A Guilhot Christophe C Daffé Mamadou M
Journal of bacteriology 20090130 8
Lipooligosaccharides (LOS) are highly antigenic glycolipids produced by a number of Mycobacterium species, which include "M. canettii," a member of the M. tuberculosis complex, and the opportunistic pathogens M. marinum and M. kansasii. The various LOS share a core composed of trehalose esterified by at least 1 mole of polymethyl-branched fatty acid (PMB-FA) and differ from one another by their oligosaccharide extensions. In this study, we identified a cluster of genes, MSMEG_4727 through MSMEG_ ...[more]