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Targeting the role of a key conserved motif for substrate selection and catalysis by 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate synthase.
Biochemistry - 10 May 2011
Allison Timothy M, Hutton Richard D, Cochrane Fiona C, Yeoman Jeffrey A, Jameson Geoffrey B, Parker Emily J
Abstract excerpt
3-Deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate 8-phosphate synthase (KDO8PS) catalyzes the reaction between three-carbon phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP) and five-carbon d-arabinose 5-phosphate (A5P), generating KDO8P, a key intermediate in the biosynthetic pathway to 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonate, a component of the lipopolysaccharide of the Gram-negative bacterial cell wall. Both metal-dependent and metal-independent forms of KDO8PS...
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