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Using cell-free extracts of a desulfurizing mesophile, Rhodococcus erythropolis KA2-5-1 (the Dsz system) and Escherichia coli JM109, which possesses the desulfurizing genes of a thermophile Paenibacillus sp. A11-2 (the Tds system), the reactivity of desulfurizing enzymes toward 4,6-dialkyl dibenzothiophenes (4,6-dialkyl DBTs) and 7-alkyl benzothiophenes (7-alkyl BTs) was investigated. Both systems desulfurized all the 4,6-dialkyl DBTs, except 4,6-dibutyl DBT. Although some alkylated BTs were degraded by the Dsz system, no desulfurized compounds were detected. The reactivity of the Tds system toward alkylated BTs was higher than that of DBT. In contrast to the Dsz system, the Tds system yielded desulfurized compounds from all of the alkylated BTs examined.
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Konishi, J., Okada, H., Hirasawa, K. et al. Comparison of the substrate specificity of the two bacterial desulfurization systems. Biotechnology Letters 24, 1863–1867 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020957516297
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