Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1677
Abstract
ABSTRACT
In the peptidoglycan of
Mycobacterium leprae
,
l
-alanine of the side chain is replaced by glycine. When expressed in
Escherichia coli
, MurC (UDP-
N
-acetyl-muramate:
l
-alanine ligase) of
M. leprae
showed
K
m
and
V
max
for
l
-alanine and glycine similar to those of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
MurC, suggesting that another explanation should be sought for the presence of glycine.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
Cited by
58 articles.
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