menaquinone.

Jomkwan Jumpathong1, Ikuhisa Nishida2, Tomohiro Kaino1

  • 1Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shimane University, 1060 Nishikawatsu, Matsue 690-8504, Japan.

FEMS microbiology letters
|November 15, 2024
PubMed
概括

这项研究表明,大肠杆菌中的menaquinone (MK) 途径与ubiquinone (UQ) 途径相比,对异oprenoid侧链具有较窄的基质特异性,影响MK的产生.

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