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The Escherichia coli mutant requiring D-glutamic acid is the result of mutations in two distinct genetic loci.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jan 1993
Dougherty T J, Thanassi J A, Pucci M J
Abstract excerpt
D-Glutamic acid is an essential component of bacterial cell wall peptidoglycan in both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Very little is known concerning the genetics and biochemistry of D-glutamate production in most bacteria, including Escherichia coli. Evidence is presented in this report for the roles of two distinct genes in E. coli WM335, a strain which is auxotrophic for D-glutamate. The first gene,...
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