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The Amino terminus of Bacillus subtilis TagB possesses separable localization and functional properties.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Oct 2007
Bhavsar Amit P, D'Elia Michael A, Sahakian Tiffany D, Brown Eric D
Abstract excerpt
The function(s) of gram-positive wall teichoic acid is emerging with recent findings that it is an important virulence factor in the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus and that it is crucial to proper rod-shaped cell morphology of Bacillus subtilis. Despite its importance, our understanding of teichoic acid biosynthesis remains incomplete. The TagB protein has been implicated in the priming step of poly(glycerol...
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