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Tyrosine phosphorylation of CpsD negatively regulates capsular polysaccharide biosynthesis in streptococcus pneumoniae.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Mar 2000
Morona J K, Paton J C, Miller D C, Morona R
Abstract excerpt
In Streptococcus pneumoniae, the first four genes of the capsule locus (cpsA to cpsD) are common to most serotypes. By analysis of various in-frame deletion and site-directed mutants, the function of their gene products in capsular polysaccharide (CPS) biosynthesis was investigated. We found that...
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