Nitrofuran‐Reducing Enzymes of Euglena* Journal Articles

abstract

• SYNOPSIS. Euglena gracilis strain Z, green, dark‐grown, and “bleached”with N‐methyl‐N‐nitro‐N‐nitrosoguanidine, was found to contain 2 soluble enzymes which reduce nitrofurans. A small amount of activity was demonstrated also in a particulate fraction of sonic extracts, but none in isolated chloroplasts. The reduction of 5 nitrofurans, having widely differing bleaching activities, by each of the 2 enzymes was examined.

authors

• Mccalla, Dennis Robert
• VOUTSINOS, DONNA

status

• published 

publication date

• February 1975

has subject area

• 0605 Microbiology (FoR)
• 0608 Zoology (FoR)
• Chloroplasts (MeSH)
• Enzyme Activation (MeSH)
• Euglena gracilis (MeSH)
• Hydrogen-Ion Concentration (MeSH)
• Mycology & Parasitology (Science Metrix)
• Nitrofurans (MeSH)
• Nitrofurantoin (MeSH)
• Nitrofurazone (MeSH)
• Oxidation-Reduction (MeSH)
• Oxidoreductases (MeSH)

published in

• Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology  Journal

keywords

• Chloroplasts
• Enzyme Activation
• Euglena gracilis
• Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
• Nitrofurans
• Nitrofurantoin
• Nitrofurazone
• Oxidation-Reduction
• Oxidoreductases

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1975.tb00958.x

PubMed ID

• 235023

start page

• 130

end page

• 134

volume

• 22

issue

• 1