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Extragenic suppression of the requirement for diaminopimelate in diaminopimelate auxotrophs of Mycobacterium smegmatis.

FEMS microbiology letters - 8 Aug 2003

Consaul Sandra A, Jacobs William R, Pavelka Martin S

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Mycobacteria, like many prokaryotes, have a peptidoglycan with peptides composed of L-alanine (or glycine), D-iso-glutamine, meso-diaminopimelate, and D-alanine. We sought to study mycobacterial peptidoglycan biosynthesis by constructing diaminopimelate (DAP) auxotrophs of Mycobacterium smegmatis and then isolating spontaneous mutants of these auxotrophs that can grow in the absence of DAP. Here we report the...

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PMID: 12900031
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00502-0

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