Gene Review:
menE - O-succinylbenzoate-CoA ligase
Escherichia coli str. K-12 substr. MG1655
Synonyms:
ECK2254, JW2255
- Menaquinone (vitamin K2) biosynthesis: localization and characterization of the menE gene from Escherichia coli. Sharma, V., Hudspeth, M.E., Meganathan, R. Gene (1996)
- The menD and menE homologs code for 2-succinyl-6-hydroxyl-2,4-cyclohexadiene-1-carboxylate synthase and O-succinylbenzoic acid-CoA synthase in the phylloquinone biosynthetic pathway of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Wade Johnson, T., Naithani, S., Stewart, C., Zybailov, B., Daniel Jones, A., Golbeck, J.H., Chitnis, P.R. Biochim. Biophys. Acta (2003)