1.14.13.240 physiological function a strain deficient in ubiI has a low level of coenzyme Q and accumulates 3-octaprenyl-4-hydroxyphenol. UbiI is only implicated in aerobic Q biosynthesis. C5-hydroxylation reaction is totally abolished in a strain lacking both UbiF and UbiI. UbiI partially complements the C5-hydroxylation defect of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells lacking COQ6 745289 1.14.13.240 physiological function expression of UbiM complements C-1/C-5/C-6 hydroxylation defects in Escherichia coli. Neisseria meningitidis does not contain ubiH, ubiF, ubiI, ubiL, or coq7 genes but possesses instead a single ubiquinone hydroxylase-encoding gene, i.e. UbiM. UbiM may perform all three hydroxylation reactions of the ubiquinone biosynthetic pathway in Neisseria meningitidis -, 745829