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Molecular cloning, expression, and characterization of the genes encoding the two essential protein components of Micrococcus luteus B-P 26 hexaprenyl diphosphate synthase.

Journal of bacteriology ·Vol. 180 ·No. 6 ·1998-03-00 ·Pages 1578-81

Shimizu N, Koyama T, Ogura K

Abstract

The structural genes encoding the two essential components A and B of hexaprenyl diphosphate synthase, which produce the precursor of the prenyl side chain of menaquinone-6, were cloned from Micrococcus luteus B-P 26.

MeSH Terms

Alkyl and Aryl Transferases/genetics,metabolism Amino Acid Sequence Chromosome Mapping Cloning, Molecular DNA, Bacterial/analysis,genetics Micrococcus luteus/enzymology,genetics,metabolism Molecular Sequence Data Plasmids Sequence Alignment Sequence Analysis, DNA Sequence Homology, Amino Acid

Chemicals

DNA, Bacterial Alkyl and Aryl Transferases trans-pentaprenyltranstransferase

Authors & Affiliations

3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Shimizu N

Institute for Chemical Reaction Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Koyama T

Ogura K

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Article Info

Journal

Journal of bacteriology

Abbr.

J Bacteriol

ISSN

0021-9193

DOI

10.1128/JB.180.6.1578-1581.1998

Published

1998-03-00

Pages

1578-81

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

2985120R

PMCID

PMC107062

Subset

Databases

GENBANK

AB003187, AB003188

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1128/JB.180.6.1578-1581.1998 PMC Full Text View journal details

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