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Mechanism of glycan chain elongation by peptidoglycan glycosyltransferases. The catalytic base (glutamate of motif 1) catalyzes the deprotonation of the GlcNAc 4-OH of lipid II, and the activated nucleophile then directly attacks the C1 of the lipid-linked MurNAc of the growing polysaccharide chain.
