1). Enzymatic transfer of glucose from aryl-β-glucoside to alcohol, which had been observed with enzyme preparations from green leaves, was also recognized in usual β-glucosidase preparations, such as apricot emulsin and enzymes of mold fungi,
Aspergillus niger and
Penicillium chrysogenum. 2). From the parallelism between transferring and hydrolyzing activity in enzyme preparations of different purity, it is suggested that the enzymes responsible for transfer and hydrolysis are identical.
3). The hydrolysis and transfer action of β-glucodidase may be interpreted in terms of acceptor difference; when water acts as glucose acceptor the hydrolysis results, whereas the use of alcohol leads to the formation of alkyl-β-glucoside.
Present research has been carried out with the aid of the Science Research fund of the Ministry of Education.
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