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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2018

A Canonical Biotin Synthesis Enzyme, 8-Amino-7-Oxononanoate Synthase (BioF), Utilizes Different Acyl Chain Donors in Bacillus subtilis and Escherichia coli.

Miglena Manandhar, John E Cronan

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Miglena ManandharDepartment of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
John E CronanDepartment of Microbiology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA j-cronan@life.uiuc.edu.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · US

Funding

GENETIC APPROACHES TO REGULATION OF LIPID METABOLISMR01AI015650 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI CRONAN, JOHN E. · 1985 to 2022
$12.0M
GENETIC APPROACHES TO REGULATION OF LIPID METABOLISMR37AI015650 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI CRONAN, JOHN E. · 1994 to 2003
$1.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI015650NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI015650
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

BioF (8-amino-7-oxononanoate synthase) is a strictly conserved enzyme that catalyzes the first step in assembly of the fused heterocyclic rings of biotin. The BioF acyl chain donor has long been thought to be pimeloyl-CoA. Indeed,

Indexed as

Acyl Coenzyme AAcyltransferasesAmino Acid SequenceBacillus subtilisBacterial ProteinsBiotinEscherichia coliModels, GeneticSequence Alignment8-amino-7-oxononanoate synthaseAcyl Coenzyme AAcyltransferasesBacterial ProteinsBiotinpimeloyl-coenzyme ABioFbiotinBioWpimelic acid

Identifiers

PMID29054876
PMCPMC5734022
OpenAlexW2765632706

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