STUDIES ON BACTERIAL NITROREDUCTASES. ENZYMES INVOLVED IN REDUCTION OF AROMATIC NITRO COMPOUNDS IN ESCHERICHIA COLI

  • KITAMURA SHIGEYUKI
    Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hiroshima University School of Medicine
  • NARAI NORIKO
    Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hiroshima University School of Medicine
  • TATSUMI KIYOSHI
    Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hiroshima University School of Medicine

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Enzymes involved in reduction of methyl p-nitrobenzoate in Escherichia coli B/r were oxygen-insensitive and precipitated between 30 and 60% ammonium sulfate saturation from cell-free extracts of the strain. The reductases were resolved by DEAE-cellulose column chromatography into three enzymes, NADH-linked, NAD (P) H-linked and NADPH-linked ones. These enzymes were flavoprotein which could be inactivated by dialysis aginst 1 M potassium bromide and could be reactivated by FMN. The NADH-linked and NAD (P) H-linked reductases were sensitive to dicumarol and exhibited menadione reductase activities. Aromatic nitro compounds with electron-withdrawing p-substituents were easily reduced by the NAD (P) H-linked reductase.

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