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mycolic acid

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mycolic acid
the component of mycobacterial cell walls that confirms their acid-fast characteristic.


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Mycolic acid high-pressure liquid chromotography was performed (8), and the pattern obtained matched that of type strain CDC 945 (AY608920) previously reported (4).
Identification of MTBC then can proceed by such methods as high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) of mycolic acid esters or the fluorescence detection of HPLC (FL-HPLC), which has a sensitivity of 99% with BACTEC 12B broth.
28 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the researchers reported that this enzyme, called AccD5, provides the starting material for the synthesis of a type of branched fatty acid that the bacterium inserts among the mycolic acids in its lipid layer.
 
 
 
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