Newton Gerald L, Koledin Teresa, Gorovitz Batia, Rawat Mamta, Fahey Robert C, Av-Gay Yossef
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA.
J Bacteriol. 2003 Jun;185(11):3476-9. doi: 10.1128/JB.185.11.3476-3479.2003.
Mycothiol is the major thiol present in most actinomycetes and is produced from the pseudodisaccharide 1D-myo-inosityl 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-alpha-D-glucopyranoside (GlcNAc-Ins). A transposon mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis shown to be GlcNAc-Ins and mycothiol deficient was sequenced to identify a putative glycosyltransferase gene designated mshA. The ortholog in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Rv0486, was used to complement the mutant phenotype.
麦角硫因是大多数放线菌中存在的主要硫醇,由假二糖1D-肌醇2-乙酰氨基-2-脱氧-α-D-吡喃葡萄糖苷(GlcNAc-Ins)产生。对耻垢分枝杆菌的一个转座子突变体进行测序,该突变体被证明缺乏GlcNAc-Ins和麦角硫因,以鉴定一个假定的糖基转移酶基因,命名为mshA。结核分枝杆菌中的直系同源基因Rv0486用于补充突变体表型。