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Envelope disorder of Escherichia coli cells lacking phosphatidylglycerol.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Oct 2002
Suzuki Motoo, Hara Hiroshi, Matsumoto Kouji
Abstract excerpt
Phosphatidylglycerol, the most abundant acidic phospholipid in Escherichia coli, is considered to play specific roles in various cellular processes that are essential for cell viability. A null mutation of pgsA, which encodes phosphatidylglycerophosphate synthase, does indeed confer lethality. However, pgsA null mutants are viable if they lack the major outer membrane lipoprotein (Lpp) (lpp mutant) (S. Kikuchi,...
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