Comparison of Lipoteichoic Acid from Different Serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae

doi:10.1074/jbc.m602676200

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Comparison of Lipoteichoic Acid from Different Serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae

30 Aug 2006

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Pneumococcal lipoteichoic acid (LTA) is known to have a completely different chemical structure compared with that of Staphylococcus aureus: the polyglycerophosphate in the backbone is replaced in the pneumococcal LTA by a pentamer repeating unit consisting of one ribitol and a tetrasaccharide carrying the unusual substituents phosphocholine and N-acetyl-D-galactosamine. Neither D-alanine nor...

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