Lipid A biosynthetic process


Definition: The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of lipid A, the glycolipid group of bacterial lipopolysaccharides, consisting of six fatty acyl chains linked to two glucosamine residues.

ID: GO:0009245

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Articles referencing this term

A strategy to discover inhibitors of Bacillus subtilis surfactin-type phosphopantetheinyl transferase
Adam Yasgar, Timothy L. Foley, Ajit Jadhav, James Inglese, Michael D. Burkart and Anton Simeonov, Mol. BioSyst., 2010 , 6 , 365
DOI: 10.1039/b913291k


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