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Site ubiG

• Name: ubiG
• Type: Gene
  Synonyms

  b2232	MG1655 locus tag

  
  
• Mnemonic: Ubiquinone
• Left End Point: 50.39
• Right End Point: 50.40
• Direction: <
• Priority: 1
  2 Alleles of This Gene

  ubiG785(del)::kan

  ubiG794-YFP(::cat)

  
  
• External Database Links:

  Host Site	Page Links
  EcoGene.org	EG11143
  EcoliWiki	ubiG

  
  
• Comment:
  • Product converts 1-octaprenyl-3-methyl-5-hydroxy-6-methoxy-1,4-benzoquinone to ubiquinone 8
• References:
  • Platz, A., B.-M. Sjoberg 1980. Construction and characterization of hybrid plasmids containing the Escherichia coli region. J.Bacteriol. 143:561-568
  
  
  • Gibert, I., M. Llagostera, J. Barbe' 1988. Regulation of ubiG gene expression in Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 170:1346-1349
  
  
  • Hsu, A.Y., W.W. Poon, J.A. Shepherd, D.C. Myles, C.F. Clarke 1996. Complementation of coq3 mutant yeast by mitochondrial targeting of the Escherichia coli UbiG polypeptide: evidence that UbiG catalyzes both O-methylation steps in ubiquinone biosynthesi