This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowReprints and Permissions
Right arrow Copyright Information
Right arrow Books from ASM Press
Right arrow MicrobeWorld
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Güler, S.
Right arrow Articles by Benning, C.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Güler, S.
Right arrow Articles by Benning, C.

 Previous Article  |  Next Article 

Journal of Bacteriology, January 2000, p. 543-545, Vol. 182, No. 2
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

A Cyanobacterial Gene, sqdX, Required for Biosynthesis of the Sulfolipid Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol

Sinan Güler,dagger Bernd Essigmann, and Christoph Benning*

Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1319

Received 9 July 1999/Accepted 21 October 1999

The sulfolipid sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol is present in the photosynthetic membranes of plants and many photosynthetic bacteria. A novel gene, sqdX, essential for sulfolipid biosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC7942 is proposed to encode the cyanobacterial sulfolipid synthase catalyzing the last reaction of the pathway.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1319. Phone: (517) 355-1609. Fax: (517) 353-9334. E-mail: benning{at}pilot.msu.edu.

dagger Present address: Universitätsklinikum Charite, Institut für Pharmakologie und Toxikologie, 10117 Berlin, Germany.

Journal of Bacteriology, January 2000, p. 543-545, Vol. 182, No. 2
0021-9193/00/$04.00+0
Copyright © 2000, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.


This article has been cited by other articles:

  • Awai, K., Kakimoto, T., Awai, C., Kaneko, T., Nakamura, Y., Takamiya, K.-i., Wada, H., Ohta, H. (2006). Comparative Genomic Analysis Revealed a Gene for Monoglucosyldiacylglycerol Synthase, an Enzyme for Photosynthetic Membrane Lipid Synthesis in Cyanobacteria. Plant Physiol. 141: 1120-1127 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
  • Riekhof, W. R., Ruckle, M. E., Lydic, T. A., Sears, B. B., Benning, C. (2003). The Sulfolipids 2'-O-Acyl-Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol and Sulfoquinovosyldiacylglycerol Are Absent from a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Mutant Deleted in SQD1. Plant Physiol. 133: 864-874 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
  • Yu, B., Xu, C., Benning, C. (2002). Arabidopsis disrupted in SQD2 encoding sulfolipid synthase is impaired in phosphate-limited growth. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99: 5732-5737 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
  • Sassaki, G. L., Gorin, P. A.J., Tischer, C. A., Iacomini, M. (2001). Sulfonoglycolipids from the lichenized basidiomycete Dictyonema glabratum: isolation, NMR, and ESI-MS approaches. Glycobiology 11: 345-351 [Abstract] [Full Text]  
  • Berg, S., Edman, M., Li, L., Wikstrom, M., Wieslander, A. (2001). Sequence Properties of the 1,2-Diacylglycerol 3-Glucosyltransferase from Acholeplasma laidlawii Membranes. RECOGNITION OF A LARGE GROUP OF LIPID GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES IN EUBACTERIA AND ARCHAEA. J. Biol. Chem. 276: 22056-22063 [Abstract] [Full Text]  


Copyright © 2009 by the American Society for Microbiology.   For an alternate route to Journals.ASM.org, visit: http://intl-journals.asm.org | More Info»