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The uptake of 35S-labelled enantiomers of lipoic acid into cells from Escherichia coli was studied. The R-enantiomer was taken up by a factor of two more efficiently than the S-form. Autoradiography of polyacrylamide gels of partially purified pyruvate dehydrogenase complex from these cells showed that only the R-lipoic acid was covalently incorporated as a cofactor into the dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase component of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex.
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Oehring et al. (1992) studied this question.
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