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Plant and Cell Physiology, 1966, Vol. 7, No. 1 105-114
© 1966

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SPLITTING OF {varepsilon}-CAPROLACTAM AND OTHER LACTAMS BY BACTERIA

TAKASHI FUKUMURA

Basic Research Laboratories, Toyo Rayon Co., Ltd. Tebiro, Kamakura

{varepsilon}-Caprolactam-utilizing bacteria split {varepsilon}-caprolactam, {delta}-valerolactam and {gamma}-butyrolactam, and produce the {omega}-amino acids corresponding to them. This activity is lost when cells are grown on 6-amino-caproic acid or ammonium adipate, and reappears when cells are incubated with either {varepsilon}-caprolactam or {delta}-valerolactam as the sole major organic nutrient. Chloramphenicol inhibits this adaptation. The enzyme splitting those lactams is one and the same. It may be called "lactam-splitting enzyme". But attempts to demonstrate the enzymic activity in a cell-free system has not yet been successful.

(Received September 9, 1965; )
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