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SUBMITTER: Lefebvre C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7005898 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lefebvre Cyril C Frigui Wafa W Slama Nawel N Lauzeral-Vizcaino Françoise F Constant Patricia P Lemassu Anne A Parish Tanya T Eynard Nathalie N Daffé Mamadou M Brosch Roland R Quémard Annaïk A
Scientific reports 20200207 1
The fatty acid synthase type II (FAS-II) multienzyme system builds the main chain of mycolic acids (MAs), important lipid pathogenicity factors of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb). Due to their original structure, the identification of the (3 R)-hydroxyacyl-ACP dehydratases, HadAB and HadBC, of Mtb FAS-II complex required in-depth work. Here, we report the discovery of a third dehydratase protein, HadD<sub>Mtb</sub> (Rv0504c), whose gene is non-essential and sits upstream of cmaA2 encoding a cyc ...[more]