… high complexity and contain phosphorylcholine (P-Cho) … substitution pattern. Here, we report
the occurrence of a saccharide moiety substituted with two P-Cho residues, which is unique …

… has a unique nutritional requirement for exogenous choline and attaches phosphorylcholine
(P-Cho) residues to the GalpNAc moieties of its teichoic acids (TAs) in its cell wall. Two …

… nosyl moieties may explain the unusual extraction behavior (see … but not terminal, and
substituted with phosphocholine residues, … of TA suggests major repeats with two phosphocholine …

… Pneumococci are unique among Gram-positive bacteria because LTA and TA have identical
chains which are substituted with phosphocholine (PCho) residues [1], [2]. The chains are …

… There is a unique situation in S. pneumoniae as the … native alanyl-substituted lipoteichoic
acids became available, … the same phosphocholine-containing chain structure as teichoic acid […

… is the unique carrier of Forssman antigenicity, eliciting … study, only by carrying a single
phosphocholine moiety and a non-N… Integrated into the chain and substituted with phosphocholine …

… A unique characteristic of S. pneumoniae is its nutritional requirement for choline 32 , which
… into the repeating units of teichoic and lipoteichoic acids 34 . Replacement of choline in the …

… Phosphocholine molecules decorating bacterial cell wall … Phases were determined by
molecular replacement using a … Sanger sequencing revealed 29 unique sybodies, of which 26 …

… acids. By a combination of X-ray crystallography, NMR, … of fully-PCho-substituted teichoic
acids (with two choline moieties per … to the phosphorylcholine of pneumococcal teichoic acids. …

… , Haemophilus influenzae) require phosphocholine substitutions on their cell surface …
Flowering plants therefore are unusual in how they synthesize choline moieties. In leaves …