<italic toggle="yes">Chlamydia trachomatis dapF</italic> Encodes a Bifunctional Enzyme Capable of Both <sc>d</sc>-Glutamate Racemase and Diaminopimelate Epimerase Activities
ABSTRACT Peptidoglycan is a sugar/amino acid polymer unique to bacteria and essential for division and cell shape maintenance. The d-amino acids that make up its cross-linked stem peptides are not abundant in nature and must be synthesized by bacteria de novo. d-Glutamate is present at the second po...
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American Society for Microbiology
2018
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