(1) Department of Microbiology, University College, Newport Road, CF1 1XP Cardiff, England
Abstract:
Growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 on isomers of hydroxyproline induced the synthesis of an allohydroxy-d-proline dehydrogenase. The enzyme resembled the d-alanine dehydrogenase of this organism in its association with the particulate fraction and its linkage to oxygen through a cytochrome-containing respiratory chain, but differed from this and other bacterial d-amino acid dehydrogenases in its high substrate specificity and low Km.