Synthesis and Characterization of Partially and Fully Saturated Menaquinone Derivatives.

ABSTRACT: Menaquinones (MKs) contain both a redox active quinone moiety and a hydrophobic repeating isoprenyl side chain of varying lengths and degrees of saturation. This characteristic structure allows MKs to play a key role in the respiratory electron transport system of some prokaryotes by shuttling electrons and protons between membrane-bound protein complexes, which act as electron acceptors and donors. Hydrophobic MK molecules with partially and fully saturated isoprenyl side chains are found in a wide range of eubacteria and archaea, and the structural variations of the MK analogues are evolutionarily conserved but poorly understood. For example, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of tuberculosis, uses predominantly MK-9(II-H₂) (saturated at the second isoprene

SUBMITTER: Koehn JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6643618 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature