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SUBMITTER: Jeevarajah D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC522212 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of bacteriology 20041001 20
Several species of mycobacteria express abundant glycopeptidolipids (GPLs) on the surfaces of their cells. The GPLs are glycolipids that contain modified sugars including acetylated 6-deoxy-talose and methylated rhamnose. Four methyltransferases have been implicated in the synthesis of the GPLs of Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium avium. A rhamnosyl 3-O-methytransferase and a fatty acid methyltransferase of M. smegmatis have been previously characterized. In this paper, we characterize t ...[more]