García‐del Portillo, Francisco


Publications
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Experimental evidence of <scp>d</scp>‐glutamate racemase activity in the uncultivated bacterium Candidatus Saccharimonas aalborgensis

Citation
Peñalver et al. (2024). Environmental Microbiology 26 (4)
Names
Ca. Saccharimonas aalborgenesis Saccharimonas aalborgensis Ts
Abstract
AbstractThe Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) encompasses widespread uncultivated bacteria with reduced genomes and limited metabolic capacities. Most CPR bacteria lack the minimal set of enzymes required for peptidoglycan (PG) synthesis, leaving it unclear how these bacteria produce this essential envelope component. In this study, we analysed the distribution of d‐amino acid racemases that produce the universal PG components d‐glutamate (d‐Glu) or d‐alanine (d‐Ala). We also examined moonlighting