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. 1979 Sep;25(3):775–780. doi: 10.1128/iai.25.3.775-780.1979

Demonstration of lanthionine as a natural constituent of the peptidoglycan of Fusobacterium nucleatum.

E N Vasstrand, T Hofstad, C Endresen, H B Jensen
PMCID: PMC414514  PMID: 500186

Abstract

Peptidoglycan was purified from the oral bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum strain Fev 1, using boiling sodium dodecyl sulfate and pronase. The composition of this peptidoglycan was found to be similar to that of other gram-negative bacteria, except that it lacked diaminopimelic acid. Lanthionine, the monosulfur analog of diaminopimelic acid, was identified as the diaminodicarboxylic acid of this peptidoglycan. It is assumed that lanthionine replaced diaminopimelic acid. Thus, the peptidoglycan of F. nucleatum Fev 1 is one of the few known sources of naturally occurring lanthionine.

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