Involvement of the Protocatechuate Pathway in the Metabolism of Mandelic Acid by Aspergillus niger
AUTOR(ES)
Jamaluddin, M.
RESUMO
Cell-free extracts of Aspergillus niger UBC 814 grown in the presence of dl-mandelate oxidized both d(−)- and l(+)-mandelate via benzoylformate and benzaldehyde to benzoate. dl-p-Hydroxymandelate was oxidized, presumably through a parallel pathway, to p-hydroxybenzoate. A particulate d(−)-mandelate dehydrogenase and a supernatant fraction l(+)-mandelate dehydrogenase converted their respective substrates to benzoylformate. Both flavine adenine dinucleotide and flavine mononucleotide showed a stimulatory effect on the activity of the l(+)-mandelate dehydrogenase. Benzoylformate was decarboxylated to benzaldehyde by an enzyme requiring thiamine pyrophosphate for maximal activity. Two benzaldehyde dehydrogenases dependent on nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP), respectively, for their activity dehydrogenated benzaldehyde to benzoate. In the presence of reduced NADP (NADPH), benzoate was oxidized via p-hydroxybenzoate and protocatechuate. Reduced NAD could not replace NADPH. Sensitive methods of assay for d(−)-mandelate dehydrogenase and benzoylformate decarboxylase are described. The fungal pathway is compared with these systems in bacteria.
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