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Lipoarabinomannan of Mycobacterium: mannose capping by a multifunctional terminal mannosyltransferase.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Nov 2008
Kaur Devinder, Obregón-Henao Andrés, Pham Ha, Chatterjee Delphi, Brennan Patrick J, Jackson Mary
Abstract excerpt
Biosynthesis of phosphatidylinositol (PI)-containing lipoarabinomannan (LAM) and lipomannan (LM) of Mycobacterium spp. follows a conserved pathway involving multiple membrane-associated, substrate-specific mannosyltransferases (ManTs) responsible for the sequential addition of alpha-mannopyranosyl (Manp) units donated by decaprenyl-P-Manp on the periplasmic side of the plasma membrane. Because of their...
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