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FEMS Microbiol Lett ; 245(1): 61-5, 2005 Apr 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15796980

ABSTRACT

The first prokaryotic urea carboxylase has previously been purified and characterized from Oleomonas sagaranensis. As the results indicated the presence of an ATP-dependent urea degradation pathway in Bacteria, the characterization of the second component of this pathway, allophanate hydrolase, was carried out. The gene encoding allophanate hydrolase was found adjacent to the urea carboxylase gene. The purified, recombinant enzyme exhibited ammonia-generating activity towards allophanate, and, together with urea carboxylase, efficiently produced ammonia from urea in an ATP-dependent manner. The substrate specificity of the enzyme was strict, and analogs of allophanate were not hydrolyzed. Moreover, although the urea carboxylase exhibited carboxylase activity towards urea, acetamide, and formamide, ammonia-releasing activity of the two enzymes combined was detected only towards urea, indicating that the pathway was specific for urea degradation.


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Acetobacteraceae/enzymology , Adenosine Triphosphate/metabolism , Allophanate Hydrolase/metabolism , Ammonia/metabolism , Urea/analogs & derivatives , Urea/metabolism , Carbon-Nitrogen Ligases/metabolism , Kinetics , Nitrogen/metabolism , Substrate Specificity
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J Org Chem ; 69(25): 8676-80, 2004 Dec 10.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15575743

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Substituent effects on the oxidizing ability of triarylbismuth dichlorides were examined by intermolecular and intramolecular competition experiments on geraniol oxidation in the presence of DBU. It was found that the oxidizing ability of the dichlorides increases with increasing electron-withdrawing ability of the para substituents, and by introduction of a methyl group at the ortho position of the aryl ligands attached to the bismuth. The intermolecular and intramolecular H/D kinetic isotope effects observed for the competitive oxidation of p-bromobenzyl alcohols indicate that the rate-determining step involves C-H bond cleavage. Several primary and secondary alcohols were oxidized efficiently under mild conditions by the combined use of newly developed organobismuth(V) oxidants and DBU.

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