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The carboxy-terminal parts of these proteins are most closely related to cyanophycin synthetase, which catalyzes the synthesis of a polypeptide storage polymer in cyanobacteria, and more distantly related to D-Ala-D-Ala ligase, which is involved in peptidoglycan biosynthesis in many bacteria.
The preparation was mixed and centrifuged at 50,000 × g for 30 min at 20°C to remove the peptidoglycan.
Lipid A is a glucosamine-based phospholipid that makes up the monolayer of the outer membrane outside the peptidoglycan layers.
In these processes the wall is disassembled through the action of a diverse set of enzymes that hydrolyze various linkages in peptidoglycan.
In the latter lineage, it was exapted to function as an intracellular enzyme, probably due to the similarity in structure of GSP and the ancestral extracellular substrate, namely the peptidoglycan peptides.