Literature summary for 2.3.2.17 extracted from

Ehlert, K.; Schroder, W.; Labischinski, H.
Specificities of FemA and FemB for different glycine residues: FemB cannot substitute for FemA in staphylococcal peptidoglycan pentaglycine side chain formation (1997), J. Bacteriol., 179, 7573-7576.

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Organism

Organism	UniProt	Comment	Textmining
Staphylococcus aureus	-	-	-

General Information

General Information	Comment	Organism
physiological function	femA mutants leading to truncated proteins still produce intact FemB while exhibiting a phenotype identical to femAB double mutants, such as same muropeptide pattern. FemA is essential for the addition of glycine residues 2 and 3 only to the staphylococcal interpeptide bridge	Staphylococcus aureus

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