DECARBOXYLATION OF DIMETHYLTRIFLUOROACETOXYARSINE

The Nonenzymatic Decarboxylation of Diketosuccinate

Malic dehydrogenase has been shown to catalyze the reduction of diketosuccinate by DPNH (4). Furthermore, both oxaloglycolate and diketosuccinate undergo spontaneous decarboxylation in aqueous solution. These nonenzymatic reactions complicate the analysis of the metabolic path of degradation of tartrate. As a prerequisite for the use of labeled compounds to study the biochemical synthesis and d...

Light-driven Enzymatic Decarboxylation

Oxidoreductases belong to the most-applied industrial enzymes. Nevertheless, they need external electrons whose supply is often costly and challenging. Recycling of the electron donors NADH or NADPH requires the use of additional enzymes and sacrificial substrates. Interestingly, several oxidoreductases accept hydrogen peroxide as electron donor. While being inexpensive, this reagent often redu...

Genetic manipulation of glycine decarboxylation.

The glycine-serine interconversion, catalysed by glycine decarboxylase and serine hydroxymethyltransferase, is an important reaction of primary metabolism in all organisms including plants, by providing one-carbon units for many biosynthetic reactions. In plants, in addition, it is an integral part of the photorespiratory metabolic pathway and produces large amounts of photorespiratory CO(2) wi...

Xxxiii. the Decarboxylation of Pectin

Enzymatic decarboxylation of oxalic acid.

Large quantities of oxalic acid accumulate in the cell sap of various plants and as a major product of carbohydrate metabolism by many molds. A recent investigation in our laboratory revealed that oxalic acid was produced from oxalacetic acid by an enzyme system which was isolated from the mycelia of Aspergillus niger (1). It was also demonstrated that oxalic acid was converted to formic acid a...