| Literature DB >> 12754249 |
Gerald L Newton1, Teresa Koledin, Batia Gorovitz, Mamta Rawat, Robert C Fahey, Yossef Av-Gay.
Abstract
Mycothiol is the major thiol present in most actinomycetes and is produced from the pseudodisaccharide 1D-myo-inosityl 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-alpha-D-glucopyranoside (GlcNAc-Ins). A transposon mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis shown to be GlcNAc-Ins and mycothiol deficient was sequenced to identify a putative glycosyltransferase gene designated mshA. The ortholog in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Rv0486, was used to complement the mutant phenotype.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12754249 PMCID: PMC155378 DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.11.3476-3479.2003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Bacteriol ISSN: 0021-9193 Impact factor: 3.490