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ArticleACS central science

Biosynthesis of Squalene from Farnesyl Diphosphate in Bacteria: Three Steps Catalyzed by Three Enzymes.

Jian-Jung Pan, Jose O Solbiati, Gurusankar Ramamoorthy, Brandan S Hillerich, Ronald D Seidel, John E Cronan, Steven C Almo, C Dale Poulter

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Article in ACS central science. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
3.3field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 88 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Jian-Jung PanDepartment of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States.
Jose O SolbiatiInstitute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Gurusankar RamamoorthyDepartment of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States.
Brandan S HillerichDepartment of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, United States.
Ronald D SeidelDepartment of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, United States.
John E CronanDepartment of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States.
Steven C AlmoDepartment of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York 10461, United States.
C Dale PoulterDepartment of Chemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States.
University of Utah · USUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · USYeshiva University · USAlbert Einstein College of Medicine · US

Funding

Core H: MicrobiologyU54GM093342 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI ALMO, STEVEN C. · 2010 to 2015
$34.6M
STUDIES OF STEROL BIOSYNTHESISR01GM025521 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI POULTER, CHARLES DALE · 1985 to 2014
$5.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM025521NIGMS NIH HHS U54 GM093342
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Squalene (SQ) is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of sterols in eukaryotes and a few bacteria and of hopanoids in bacteria where they promote membrane stability and the formation of lipid rafts in their hosts. The genes for hopanoid biosynthesis are typically located on clusters that consist of four highly conserved genes-

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PMID26258173
PMCPMC4527182
OpenAlexW2068056765

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