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kdsA mutations affect FtsZ-ring formation in Escherichia coli K-12.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Jan 2002
Fujishima H, Nishimura A, Wachi M, Takagi H, Hirasawa T, Teraoka H, Nishimori K, Kawabata T, Nishikawa K, Nagai K
Abstract excerpt
No one has, as yet, addressed the relationship between the nature of the outer membrane and cell division. kdsA encodes 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid (KDO) 8-phosphate synthetase which catalyses the first step in the synthesis of KDO, the linker between lipid A and oligosaccharide of lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Seven temperature-sensitive mutants containing missense mutations in kdsA were affected in the...
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