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Pathway for lipid A biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana resembling that of Escherichia coli.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 Jul 2011
Li Chijun, Guan Ziqiang, Liu Dan, Raetz Christian R H
Abstract excerpt
The lipid A moiety of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide is a hexa-acylated disaccharide of glucosamine that makes up the outer monolayer of the outer membrane. Arabidopsis thaliana contains nuclear genes encoding orthologs of key enzymes of bacterial lipid A biosynthesis, including LpxA, LpxC, LpxD, LpxB, LpxK and KdtA. Although structurally related lipid A molecules are found in most other gram-negative...
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