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. 1987 Aug;169(8):3833-5.
doi: 10.1128/jb.169.8.3833-3835.1987.

Degradation of substituted mandelic acids by meta fission reactions

I S Sze, S Dagley

Degradation of substituted mandelic acids by meta fission reactions

I S Sze et al. J Bacteriol. 1987 Aug.

Abstract

A strain of Acinetobacter lwoffii degraded 4-hydroxymandelic and 4-hydroxy-3-methoxymandelic acids to their corresponding benzoates, which were then hydroxylated by specific monooxygenases to yield, respectively, protocatechuic and 3-O-methylgallic acids; these were substrates for meta fission dioxygenases. The product formed from 3-O-methylgallate underwent slow spontaneous cyclization at pH 7 to release methanol.

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