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Haemophilus influenzae Rd lacks a stringently conserved fatty acid biosynthetic enzyme and thermal control of membrane lipid composition.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Aug 2003
Wang Haihong, Cronan John E
Abstract excerpt
The organization of the fatty acid synthetic genes of Haemophilus influenzae Rd is remarkably similar to that of the paradigm organism, Escherichia coli K-12, except that no homologue of the E. coli fabF gene is present. This finding is unexpected, since fabF is very widely distributed among bacteria and is thought to be the generic 3-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) synthase active on long-chain-length...
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