| REF. | AUTHORS | TITLE | JOURNAL | VOL. | PAGES | YEAR | ORGANISM | LINK TO PUBMED | SOURCE |
| 661184 | Zhao, X.; Miller, J.R.; Cronan, J.E. | The reaction of LipB, the octanoyl-[acyl carrier protein]:protein N-octanoyltransferase of lipoic acid synthesis, proceeds through an acyl-enzyme intermediate | Biochemistry | 44 | 16737-16746 | 2005 | Escherichia coli | PubMed |  |
| 661982 | vanden Boom, T.J.; Reed, K.E.; Cronan, J.E. | Lipoic acid metabolism in Escherichia coli: isolation of null mutants defective in lipoic acid biosynthesis, molecular cloning and characterization of the E. coli lip locus, and identification of the lipoylated protein of the glycine cleavage system | J. Bacteriol. | 173 | 6411-6420 | 1991 | Escherichia coli | PubMed |  |
| 662002 | Jordan, S.W.; Cronan, J.E., Jr. | The Escherichia coli lipB gene encodes lipoyl (octanoyl)-acyl carrier protein:protein transferase | J. Bacteriol. | 185 | 1582-1589 | 2003 | Escherichia coli | PubMed |  |
| 662098 | Jordan, S.W.; Cronan, J.E. | A new metabolic link. The acyl carrier protein of lipid synthesis donates lipoic acid to the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex in Escherichia coli | J. Biol. Chem. | 272 | 17903-17906 | 1997 | Escherichia coli, Neurospora crassa, Pisum sativum | PubMed |  |
| 663062 | Wada, M.; Yasuno, R.; Jordan, S.W.; Cronan, J.E., Jr.; Wada, H. | Lipoic acid metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana: cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding lipoyltransferase | Plant Cell Physiol. | 42 | 650-656 | 2001 | Arabidopsis thaliana | PubMed |  |
| 663308 | Nesbitt, N.M.; Baleanu-Gogonea, C.; Cicchillo, R.M.; Goodson, K.; Iwig, D.F.; Broadwater, J.A.; Haas, J.A.; Fox, B.G.; Booker, S.J. | Expression, purification, and physical characterization of Escherichia coli lipoyl(octanoyl)transferase | Protein Expr. Purif. | 39 | 269-282 | 2005 | Escherichia coli | PubMed |  |
| 676872 | Ma, Q.; Zhao, X.; Nasser Eddine, A.; Geerlof, A.; Li, X.; Cronan, J.E.; Kaufmann, S.H.; Wilmanns, M. | The Mycobacterium tuberculosis LipB enzyme functions as a cysteine/lysine dyad acyltransferase | Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA | 103 | 8662-8667 | 2006 | Mycobacterium tuberculosis | PubMed |  |
| 688368 | Fujiwara, K.; Hosaka, H.; Matsuda, M.; Okamura-Ikeda, K.; Motokawa, Y.; Suzuki, M.; Nakagawa, A.; Taniguchi, H. | Crystal structure of bovine lipoyltransferase in complex with lipoyl-AMP | J. Mol. Biol. | 371 | 222-234 | 2007 | Bos taurus | PubMed |  |
| 704311 | Hermes, F.A.; Cronan, J.E. | Scavenging of cytosolic octanoic acid by mutant LplA lipoate ligases allows growth of Escherichia coli strains lacking the LipB octanoyltransferase of lipoic acid synthesis | J. Bacteriol. | 191 | 6796-6803 | 2009 | Escherichia coli | PubMed |  |
| 706425 | Guenther, S.; Matuschewski, K.; Mueller, S. | Knockout studies reveal an important role of Plasmodium lipoic acid protein ligase A1 for asexual blood stage parasite survival | PLoS ONE | 4 | e5510 | 2009 | Plasmodium falciparum | PubMed |  |
| 711217 | Christensen, Q.H.; Cronan, J.E. | Lipoic acid synthesis: a new family of octanoyltransferases generally annotated as lipoate protein ligases | Biochemistry | 49 | 10024-10036 | 2010 | Bacillus subtilis | PubMed |  |
| 712504 | Hassan, B.H.; Cronan, J.E. | Protein-protein interactions in assembly of lipoic acid on the 2-oxoacid dehydrogenases of aerobic metabolism | J. Biol. Chem. | 286 | 8263-8276 | 2011 | Escherichia coli | PubMed |  |