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Structural characterization of a partially arabinosylated lipoarabinomannan variant isolated from a Corynebacterium glutamicum ubiA mutant.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Aug 2007
Tatituri Raju Venkata Veera, Alderwick Luke J, Mishra Arun K, Nigou Jerome, Gilleron Martine, Krumbach Karin, Hitchen Paul, Giordano Assunta, Morris Howard R, Dell Anne, Eggeling Lothar, Besra Gurdyal S
Abstract excerpt
Arabinan polysaccharide side-chains are present in both Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Corynebacterium glutamicum in the heteropolysaccharide arabinogalactan (AG), and in M. tuberculosis in the lipoglycan lipoarabinomannan (LAM). This study shows by quantitative sugar and glycosyl linkage analysis that C. glutamicum possesses a much smaller LAM version, Cg-LAM, characterized by single t-Araf residues linked to...
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