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SUBMITTER: Vetting MW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4708048 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vetting Matthew W MW Bouvier Jason T JT Gerlt John A JA Almo Steven C SC
Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications 20160101 Pt 1
Pectin is found in the cell wall of plants and is often discarded as waste. A number of research groups are interested in redirecting this biomass waste stream for the production of fuel and bulk chemicals. The primary monomeric subunit of this polysaccharide is D-galacturonate, a six-carbon acid sugar that is degraded in a five-step pathway to central metabolic intermediates by some bacteria, including Agrobacterium tumefaciens. In the third step of the pathway, D-galactaro-1,4-lactone is conve ...[more]