Polyprenyl diphosphate synthase essentially defines the length of the side chain of ubiquinone.

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Ubiquinone, known as a component of the electron transfer system in many organisms, has a different length of the isoprenoid side chain depending on the species, e.g., Escherichia coli, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and humans have 8, 6, and 10 isoprene units in the side chain, respectively. No direct...

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• Base Sequence
• Blotting, Southern
• Escherichia coli
• Gene Expression
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Mutation