Isoprenoid biosynthesis via the methyler
✍
Myriam Seemann; Narciso Campos; Manuel Rodrı́guez-Concepción; Jean-François Hoef
📂
Article
📅
2002
🏛
Elsevier Science
🌐
French
⚖ 76 KB
In the bacterium Escherichia coli, gcpE is an essential gene in the methylerythritol phosphate pathway for isoprenoid biosynthesis. Incubation of [1-3 H]methylerythritol with an E. coli mutant defective in the gcpE gene resulted in the accumulation of [1-3 H]methylerythritol 2,4-cyclodiphosphate. Th