An alternative route for recycling of N-acetylglucosamine from peptidoglycan involves the N-acetylglucosamine phosphotransferase system in Escherichia coli.

doi:10.1128/JB.00448-09

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An alternative route for recycling of N-acetylglucosamine from peptidoglycan involves the N-acetylglucosamine phosphotransferase system in Escherichia coli.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Sept 2009

Plumbridge Jacqueline

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A set of enzymes dedicated to recycling of the amino sugar components of peptidoglycan has previously been identified in Escherichia coli. The complete pathway includes the nagA-encoded enzyme, N-acetylglucosamine-6-phosphate (GlcNAc6P) deacetylase, of the catabolic pathway for use of N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc). Mutations in nagA result in accumulation of millimolar concentrations of GlcNAc6P, presumably by...

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Acetylglucosamine
Culture Media
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli Proteins
Gene Expression Regulation, Bacterial
Mutation
Peptidoglycan
Phosphotransferases

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PMID: 19617367
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00448-09
PMCID: PMC2737974

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