Description
Mevalonate 3-kinase and mevalonate-3-phosphate-5-kinase (EC 2.7.1.186) act sequentially in an alternate mevalonate pathway in the archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilum. Mevalonate 3-kinase is different from mevalonate kinase, EC 2.7.1.36, which transfers phosphate to position 5 of (R)-mevalonate and is part of the classical mevalonate pathway in eukaryotes and archaea