Our newest publication, "Phosphatidylglycerol is the lipid donor for synthesis of phospholipid-linked enterobacterial common antigen," is out today in the Journal of Bacteriology!
In this paper, we investigated the synthesis of a form of ECA that is linked to a phospholipid through a phosphodiester bond--it is the headgroup of the phospholipid. We found that a specific phospholipid, phosphatidylglycerol is the donor of the phospholipid portion of the molecule.
Congratulations to Kinsey Morris, former Mitchell Lab undergrad and research assistant, on this publication!
You can find the publication here: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jb.00403-22
Congratulations !!