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Site ubiC

• Name: ubiC
• Type: Gene
  Synonyms

  b4039	MG1655 locus tag

  
  
• Mnemonic: Ubiquinone
• Left End Point: 91.61
• Right End Point: 91.62
  Products:

  chorismate lyase

  
  
• Direction: >
• Priority: 1
  2 Alleles of This Gene

  ubiC736(del)::kan

  ubiC791-YFP(::cat)

  
  
• External Database Links:

  Host Site	Page Links
  NCBI/GenBank	M93136
  NCBI/GenBank	X66619
  EcoGene.org	EG11369
  EcoliWiki	ubiC

  
  
• Comment:
• References:
  • Nichols, B.P., J.M. Green 1992. Cloning and sequencing of Escherichia coli ubiC and purification of chorismate lyase. J.Bacteriol. 174:5309-5316
  
  
  • Lilley, P.E., N.P.M. Stamford, S.G. Vasudevan, N.E. Dixon 1993. The 92-min region of the Escherichia coli chromosome: location and cloning of the ubiA and alr genes. Gene 129:9-16
  
  
  • Soballe, B., R.K. Poole 1997. Aerobic and anaerobic regulation of the ubiCA operon, encoding enzymes for the first two committed steps of ubiquinone biosynthesis in Escherichia coli. FEBS Lett. 414:373-376
  
  
  • Soballe, B, RK Poole 1998. Requirement for ubiquinone downstream of cytochrome(s) b in the oxygen-terminated respiratory chains of Escherichia coli K-12 revealed using a null mutant allele of ubiCA Microbiology (Reading, Engl.) 144(Pt 2):361-373.