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Characterization of the dTDP-D-fucofuranose biosynthetic pathway in Escherichia coli O52.
Molecular microbiology - 1 Dec 2008
Wang Quan, Ding Peng, Perepelov Andrei V, Xu Yanli, Wang Ying, Knirel Yuriy A, Wang Lei, Feng Lu
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D-fucofuranose (D-Fucf) is a component of Escherichia coli O52 O antigen. This uncommon sugar is also the sugar moiety of the anticancer drug--gilvocarcin V produced by many streptomycetes. In E. coli O52, rmlA, rmlB, fcf1 and fcf2 were proposed in a previous study by our group to encode the enzy...
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