title: Occurrence and identification of UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-pentapeptide from the cyanobacterium Anabaena cylindrica.
abstract: UDP-N-acetylmuramyl-pentapeptide (UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptide) is well known to be a key intermediate of bacterial peptidoglycan biosynthesis. We first detected the occurrence of UDP-MurNAc-pentapeptide in the cyanobacterium Anabaena cylindrica (NIES-19), and identified the structure of this pentapeptide by two-dimensional 1H-1H and 1H-13C NMR correlation experiments and mass spectra.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Marine Biochemistry, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kodani
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ishida
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Murakami
mesh_terms: D017033:Anabaena / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D014538:Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylmuramic Acid / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D014538:Uridine Diphosphate N-Acetylmuramic Acid; C002225:UDP-N-acetylmuramic acid pentapeptide