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Cysteine biosynthesis in Lactobacillus casei: identification and characterization of a serine acetyltransferase.
FEMS microbiology letters - 1 Feb 2016
Bogicevic Biljana, Berthoud Hélène, Portmann Reto, Bavan Tharmatha, Meile Leo, Irmler Stefan
Abstract excerpt
In bacteria, cysteine can be synthesized from serine by two steps involving an L-serine O-acetyltransferase (SAT) and a cysteine synthase (CysK). While CysK is found in the publicly available annotated genome from Lactobacillus casei ATCC 334, a gene encoding SAT (cysE) is missing. In this study, we found that various strains of L. casei grew in a chemically defined medium containing sulfide as the sole sulfur...
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