I. A strain of
Achromobacter having a capacity for decomposing L
s-alloisocitrate, which had been believed to be an unnatural diastereoisomer of isocitric acid, was isolated.
2. From this organism an adaptive enzyme, DPN-specific L-alloisocitric dehydrogenase, which oxidizes the acid to α-ketoglutaric acid, was extracted. The reaction was found to be irreversible and seemed to require no metals nor other cofacters.
3. A constitutive enzyme, DPN-specific α-hydroxyglutaric dehydrogenase was for the first time found in this bacterium. Dependence of the enzyme on Mg
++ or Mn
++ was revealed only after the dialysis against EDTA.
4. Anaerobic dismutation of L-alloisocitric acid to α-hydroxyglutaric acid was proved in a crude cell-free extract of the organism.
5. The activity of oxidizing α-hydroxyglutaric acid was found to be widely distributed among different species of bacteria. It was discussed that the α-hydroxyglutaric dehydrogenase may take a role of DPNH-acceptor system
in vivo. 6. A procedure was devised to estimate L-alloisocitric acid manometrically using the crude extract of the bacterium with EDTA and semicarbazide.
The authors wish to express their gratitude to Dr. K. Sakaguchi, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Tokyo, for his kind advice throughout this work. Their thanks are also due to Dr. K. Komagata, The Institute of Applied Microbiology, University of Tokyo, for his valuable advice in the taxonomical studies of the organism.
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