THE ENZYMATIC CONVERSION OF MANDELIC ACID TO BENZOIC ACID I
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- 1 November 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 66 (5) , 538-542
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.66.5.538-542.1953
Abstract
Dried, mandelate-grown cells of Pseudomonas fluorescens oxidize both isomers of mandelic acid to benzoic acid. Studies with dried cells show that this sequence involves: a mandelate oxidizing enzyme which converts mandelic acid to benzoylformic acid, a benzoylformic carboxylase which requires cocarboxylase for activity, and a benzaldehyde dehydrogenase, activated by diphos-phopyridine nucleotide.Keywords
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