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The major component of a nonpolar fraction of an extract of an actinobacterium Nocardia sp. KMM 3749 isolated from an unidentified marine ascidian was shown, using NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry, to be 2,3-dimethoxy-5-methyl-6-polyprenyl-1,4-benzoquinone (ubiquinone Q9).
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Kuznetsova, T.A., Dmitrenok, A.S., Sobolevskaya, M.P. et al. Ubiquinone Q9 from a marine isolate of an actinobacterium Nocardia sp.. Russian Chemical Bulletin 51, 1951–1953 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021333425436
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