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Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Peptidoglycan by Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry and Bioinformatics
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Semi-Quantitative Analysis of Peptidoglycan by Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry and Bioinformatics

Published on: October 13, 2020

グラム陽性細菌のピリにおける自己触媒的分子内イソペプチド結合形成:QM/MMシミュレーション

Xiangqian Hu1, Hao Hu, Jeffrey A Melvin

  • 1Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States of America.

Journal of the American Chemical Society
|December 15, 2010
PubMed
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グラム陽性細菌はピリンのイソペプチド結合を使用して,宿主細胞の粘着のためにピリンを安定させます. この研究は,これらの必須結合を形成するグルタミン酸残基の触媒的役割を明らかにし,二段階のメカニズムを明らかにしています.

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