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SUBMITTER: Dougherty TJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC196103 | biostudies-other | 1993 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Dougherty T J TJ Thanassi J A JA Pucci M J MJ
Journal of bacteriology 19930101 1
D-Glutamic acid is an essential component of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan in both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Very little is known concerning the genetics and biochemistry of D-glutamate production in most bacteria, including Escherichia coli. Evidence is presented in this report for the roles of two distinct genes in E. coli WM335, a strain which is auxotrophic for D-glutamate. The first gene, which restores D-glutamate independence in WM335, was mapped, cloned, and sequenced ...[more]