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SUBMITTER: Guler S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC94312 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Güler S S Essigmann B B Benning C C
Journal of bacteriology 20000101 2
The sulfolipid sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol is present in the photosynthetic membranes of plants and many photosynthetic bacteria. A novel gene, sqdX, essential for sulfolipid biosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC7942 is proposed to encode the cyanobacterial sulfolipid synthase catalyzing the last reaction of the pathway. ...[more]