ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020
Lipoteichoic acid polymer length is determined by competition between free starter units.
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Abstract
Carbohydrate polymers exhibit incredible chemical and structural diversity, yet are produced by polymerases without a template to guide length and composition. As the length of carbohydrate polymers is critical for their biological functions, understanding the mechanisms that determine polymer length is an important area of investigation. Most Gram-positive bacteria produce anionic glycopolymers called lipoteichoic acids (LTA) that are synthesized by lipoteichoic acid synthase (LtaS) on a diglucosyl-diacylglycerol (Glc
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