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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 9.
Published in final edited form as: FEBS Lett. 2010 Oct 29;584(23):4761–4768. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.10.055

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Menaquinone biosynthesis pathway. MQs are biosynthesized by the shikimate and methylerythritol phosphate pathway (MEP). The 4-dihydroxy-2-naphthoate is derived from chorismate formed via the shikimate pathway. The geranylgeranyl-PP is biosynthesized by the MEP pathway. The structure of menaquinone-4 (MQ-4) found in intraerythrocytic stages of P. falciparum was indicated. Labelled MQ-4 was characterized in intraerythrocytic stages of P. falciparum when exogenous [1-(n)-3H]geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate was added in culture medium. The [3H] is indicated in bold.