Possible role of a choline-containing teichoic acid in the maintenance of normal cell shape and physiology in Streptococcus oralis. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Streptococcus oralis ATCC 35037 took up radioactively labeled choline from growth medium. Most of the choline (80 to 90%) was incorporated into the cell wall teichoic acid, and about 10% was localized in the plasma membrane. While cells grew in choline-free medium, they did so at slow rates and produced cell walls with greatly reduced amounts of phosphate and no detectable choline. Cells grown in choline-free medium had grossly abnormal shape and size. Both biochemical and morphological abnormalities were reversible by addition of choline to the medium.

publication date

  • March 1, 1993

Research

keywords

  • Choline
  • Streptococcus
  • Teichoic Acids

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC203966

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0027400546

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1128/jb.175.6.1717-1722.1993

PubMed ID

  • 8449879

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 175

issue

  • 6