Biosynthesis of squalene from farnesyl diphosphate in Bacteria: Three steps catalyzed by three enzymes

ACS Central Science

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 77-82

  Pan, Jian Jung ^a   Solbiati, Jose O ^b   Ramamoorthy, Gurusankar ^a   Hillerich, Brandan S ^c   Seidel, Ronald D ^c   Cronan, John E ^b   Almo, Steven C ^c   Poulter, C Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CATALYSIS; CLONING; ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

DIPHOSPHATES; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; HOPANOIDS; LIPID RAFT; MEMBRANE STABILITY; OXIDOREDUCTASES; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; ZYMOMONAS MOBILIS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 84961635171     PISSN: 23747943     EISSN: 23747951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5b00115     Document Type: Article

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