Culture Conditions affect the Category and Production of Ubiquinones in a Recombinant Escherichia Coli with an Exogenous Decaprenyl Diphosphate Synthase

• Published in: Advance Journal of Food Science and Technology Vol. 5; no. 6; pp. 732 - 737
• Main Authors: Li, Jiazhou, Zhang, Yuanyuan, Xie, Mingquan, Luo, Xiaochun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Maxwell Science Publishing 05.06.2013
• Subjects: ubiquinone; Rhizobium radiobacter; Decaprenyl diphosphate synthase; Escherichia coli

Ubiquinones (UQ) are important electron transporters and play lot of important roles in most organisms. In different species, UQ was classified to be UQ-6, 7, 8, 9, 10 according to their polyprenyl side chain length. The side chain's length is determined by the enzyme named Poly-Prenyl diphosph...