Article
Menaquinone (vitamin K2) biosynthesis: localization and characterization of the menE gene from Escherichia coli.
Gene - 2 Feb 1996
Sharma V, Hudspeth M E, Meganathan R
Abstract excerpt
In Escherichia coli, the biosynthesis of the electron carrier menaquinone (vitamin K2) involves at least seven identified enzymatic activities, five of which are encoded in the men cluster. One of these, the conversion of o-succinylbenzoic acid to 1,4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoic acid, requires the form...
Topics
- Acyl Coenzyme A
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- Cloning, Molecular
- Electron Transport
- Escherichia coli
- Genotype
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Molecular Structure
- Mutation
- Naphthols
- Open Reading Frames
- Operon
- Phenylbutyrates
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Deletion
- Succinate-CoA Ligases