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Literature summary for 2.1.1.201 extracted from

  • Lee, P.T.; Hsu, A.Y.; Ha, H.T.; Clarke, C.F.
    A C-methyltransferase involved in both ubiquinone and menaquinone biosynthesis: isolation and identification of the Escherichia coli ubiE gene (1997), J. Bacteriol., 179, 1748-1754.
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Protein Variants

Protein Variants Comment Organism
D142G Escherichia coli strains containing either the disruption of open reading frame in this region o251 or the point mutation in ubiE accumulated 2-octaprenyl-6-methoxy-1,4-benzoquinone and demethylmenaquinone as predominant intermediates Escherichia coli

Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Escherichia coli
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Synonyms

Synonyms Comment Organism
UbiE
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Escherichia coli

General Information

General Information Comment Organism
malfunction strains of Escherichia coli with mutations in the ubiE gene are not able to catalyze the carbon methylation reaction in the biosynthesis of ubiquinone (coenzyme Q) and menaquinone (vitamin K2), essential isoprenoid quinone components of the respiratory electron transport chain Escherichia coli