Analysis of the decaprenyl diphosphate synthase (dps) gene in fission yeast suggests a role of ubiquinone as an antioxidant

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 496-505

  Suzuki, Kengo ^a   Okada, Kazunori ^a   Kamiya, Yasuhiro ^a   Zhu, Xu Fen ^a   Nakagawa, Tsuyoshi ^a   Kawamukai, Makoto ^a   Matsuda, Hideyuki ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Decaprenyl diphosphate synthase; Glutathione; Isoprenoid; Ubiquinone

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; PYROPHOSPHATE; UBIQUINONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0030964846     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021614     Document Type: Article

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