MicrobiologybioRxivPreprint
N-methyl-bacillithiol, a new metabolite discovered in the Chlorobiaceae, indicates that bacillithiol and derivatives are widely phylogenetically distributed.
Jennifer Hiras, Sunil V. Sharma, Vidhyavathi Raman…·Thomas E. Hanson
The paper identifies N-methyl-bacillithiol (N-Me-BSH) as a novel redox-responsive thiol in Chlorobaculum tepidum and shows its widespread distribution across multiple bacterial phyla.
DOI 10.1101/173617