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Synthesis of α-Glucan in Mycobacteria Involves a Hetero-octameric Complex of Trehalose Synthase TreS and Maltokinase Pep2

[Image: see text] Recent evidence established that the cell envelope of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacillus causing tuberculosis (TB), is coated by an α-glucan-containing capsule that has been implicated in persistence in a mouse infection model. As one of three known metabolic routes to α-gluc...

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Autores principales: Roy, Rana, Usha, Veeraraghavan, Kermani, Ali, Scott, David J., Hyde, Eva I., Besra, Gurdyal S., Alderwick, Luke J., Fütterer, Klaus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2013
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23901909
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cb400508k