Shashkov A S, Tul'skaya E M, Grachev A A, Evtushenko L I, Bueva O V, Naumova I B
Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117913, Russia.
Biochemistry (Mosc). 1998 Sep;63(9):1098-103.
The cell wall of Streptomyces sparsogenes VKM Ac-1744T contains a teichoic acid of 1,3-poly(glycerol phosphate) type. The polymer is composed of about 11 repeating units of the following structure: The structure was not identified in gram-positive bacteria previously. The data are in agreement with DNA-relatedness between Streptomyces sparsogenes and Streptomyces hygroscopicus species and suggest the species-specificity of teichoic acid structure in the studied streptomycetes group.