Site ubiA
- Name: ubiA
- Type: Gene
- Synonyms
b4040 MG1655 locus tag - Mnemonic: Ubiquinone
- Left End Point: 91.62
- Right End Point: 91.64
- Products:
4-hydroxybenzoate polyprenyltransferase - Direction: >
- Priority: 1
- 1 Alleles of This Gene
ubiA351(NOTinSC) - External Database Links:
Host Site Page Links NCBI/GenBank M96268 NCBI/GenBank M93136 NCBI/GenBank X66619 EcoGene.org EG11370 EcoliWiki ubiA - Comment:
- Product converts 4-Hydroxybenzoate to 3-octaprenyl 4-hydroxybenzoate.
- References:
- Little, R. 1980. Isolation of recombinant plasmids and phage carrying the lexA gene of Eschericia coli K-12. Gene 10:237-247
- Nishimura, K., K. Nakahigashi, H. Inokuchi 1992. Location of the ubiA gene on the physical map of Escherichia coli. J.Bacteriol. 174:5762
- 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
- Chi, Y.I., H. Yokota, S.H. Kim 1997. Apo structure of the ligand-binding domain of aspartate receptor from Escherichia coli and its comparison with ligand-bound or pseudoligand-bound structures. FEBS Lett. 414:327-332
- 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.