MicrobiologyMicrobiologyPeer-reviewed
Sequestration of dead-end undecaprenyl phosphate-linked oligosaccharide intermediate
Yaoqin Hong, Jilong Qin, Matthew Thomas Doyle, Peter R. Reeves
The paper shows that incomplete O-antigen repeat units are sequestered on Und-P, leading to cell death, and that membrane disruption allows their processing.