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Assembly of the covalent linkage between lipoic acid and its cognate enzymes.
Chemistry & biology - 1 Dec 2003
Zhao Xin, Miller J Richard, Jiang Yanfang, Marletta Michael A, Cronan John E
Abstract excerpt
Lipoic acid is synthesized from octanoic acid by insertion of sulfur atoms at carbons 6 and 8 and is covalently attached to a pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) subunit. We show that sulfur atoms can be inserted into octanoyl moieties attached to a PDH subunit or a derived domain. Escherichia coli lipB mutants grew well when supplemented with octanoate in place of lipoate. Octanoate growth required both lipoate protein...
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