bacillithiol biosynthetic process

Term ID

GO:0071793

Synonyms

• bacillithiol anabolism
• bacillithiol biosynthesis
• bacillithiol formation
• bacillithiol synthesis

Definition

The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the formation of bacillithiol, the alpha-anomeric glycoside of L-cysteinyl-D-glucosamine with L-malic acid. Bacillithiol, produced widely in the Firmicutes and sporadically in other bacterial lineages, is a low-molecular-weight thiol analogous to mycothiol in the Actinomycetes and glutathione in many species. 20308541

References

Ontology

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