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Detection of carbon-phosphorus lyase activity in cell free extracts of Enterobacter aerogenes
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
|November 30, 1988
Abstract:
The bacterium Enterobacter aerogenes could grow on a medium containing alkylphosphonic acid as a phosphorus source. The extracts prepared from the cells grown on phosphonoacetic acid as a sole source of phosphorus showed an activity of carbon-phosphorus lyase and hydrolyzed methyl-phosphonic acid, phosphonoacetic acid and phenylphosphonic acid with a liberation of inorganic phosphates.