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Distribution, diversity, and activities of sulfur dioxygenases in heterotrophic bacteria.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Mar 2014
Liu Honglei, Xin Yufeng, Xun Luying
Abstract excerpt
Sulfur oxidation by chemolithotrophic bacteria is well known; however, sulfur oxidation by heterotrophic bacteria is often ignored. Sulfur dioxygenases (SDOs) (EC 1.13.11.18) were originally found in the cell extracts of some chemolithotrophic bacteria as glutathione (GSH)-dependent sulfur dioxygenases. GSH spontaneously reacts with elemental sulfur to generate glutathione persulfide (GSSH), and SDOs oxidize GSSH...
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