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Discovery of a cardiolipin synthase utilizing phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylglycerol as substrates.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 9 Oct 2012
Tan Brandon K, Bogdanov Mikhail, Zhao Jinshi, Dowhan William, Raetz Christian R H, Guan Ziqiang
Abstract excerpt
Depending on growth phase and culture conditions, cardiolipin (CL) makes up 5-15% of the phospholipids in Escherichia coli with the remainder being primarily phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG). In E. coli, the cls and ybhO genes (renamed clsA and clsB, respectively) each encode a CL synthase (Cls) that catalyzes the condensation of two PG molecules to form CL and glycerol. However, a...
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