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Deletion of internal twenty-one amino acid residues of Escherichia coli prolipoprotein does not affect the formation of the murein-bound lipoprotein.
FEBS letters - 26 Oct 1992
Zhang W Y, Dai R M, Wu H C
Abstract excerpt
Mutation pgsA affecting the phosphatidylglycerol phosphate synthesis is lethal for all but certain E. coli strains such as strains deleted for the lpp gene or strains containing unmodifiable prolipoprotein like lppD14. Strain SD312 pgsA3 is tolerant to pgsA mutation, which suggests the lpp alleles in strain SD312 pgsA3 and its parental strain SD12 may be defective. DNA sequence analysis of the lpp genes in...
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