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Utilization of different MurNAc sources by the oral pathogen Tannerella forsythia and role of the inner membrane transporter AmpG

BACKGROUND: The Gram-negative oral pathogen Tannerella forsythia strictly depends on the external supply of the essential bacterial cell wall sugar N-acetylmuramic acid (MurNAc) for survival because of the lack of the common MurNAc biosynthesis enzymes MurA/MurB. The bacterium thrives in a polymicro...

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Autores principales: Mayer, Valentina M. T., Tomek, Markus B., Figl, Rudolf, Borisova, Marina, Hottmann, Isabel, Blaukopf, Markus, Altmann, Friedrich, Mayer, Christoph, Schäffer, Christina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7670621/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33203363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12866-020-02006-z