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Tricarboxylic acid cycle-dependent synthesis of Staphylococcus aureus Type 5 and 8 capsular polysaccharides.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Mar 2010
Sadykov Marat R, Mattes Theodoric A, Luong Thanh T, Zhu Yefei, Day Shandra R, Sifri Costi D, Lee Chia Y, Somerville Greg A
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Staphylococcus aureus capsule synthesis requires the precursor N-acetyl-glucosamine; however, capsule is synthesized during post-exponential growth when the availability of N-acetyl-glucosamine is limited. Capsule biosynthesis also requires aerobic respiration, leading us to hypothesize that caps...
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