We explored the D-arabinose 5-phosphate isomerase (KdsD, E.C. 5.3.1.13) from Francisella tularensis, a highly infectious gram-negative pathogen that has raised concern as a potential bioweapon, as a target for the development of novel chemotherapeutics. F. tularensis KdsD was expressed in ...
d-Arabinose-5-phosphate isomerases (APIs) catalyze the interconversion of d-ribulose-5-phosphate and d-arabinose-5-phosphate. Various Gram-negative bacteria, such as the uropathogenic E. coli strain CFT073, contain multiple API paralogs (KdsD, GutQ, KpsF and c3406) that have been assigned ...
KdsDSpectropolarimeterArabinose 5-phosphate isomerase (API) catalyzes the reversible isomerization of Ribulose 5-phosphate (Ru5P) to Arabinose 5-Phosphate (Ar5P) for the production of 3-deoxy-2-octulosonic acid 8-phosphate (KDO), a component of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of gram-negative ...
Arabinose 5-phosphate (A5P) is a precursor of KDO biosynthesis and is normally derived from ribulose 5-phosphate by A5P isomerases, encoded by kdsD and gutQ genes in E. coli K-12. We created a kdsD gutQ-deficient double mutant of strain BW25113 and con...