Glutathione S-transferases constitute a very important family of biotransformation enzymes, which catalyse the conjugation of glutathione to a broad spectrum of xenobiotics. In this study, cytosolic glutathione S-transferases enzymes were purified from lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) liver, using an affinity chromatography method. Enzymatic activity was determined towards 1-chloro-2,4-dinitrobenze...

A single microorganism able to mineralize chloronitrobenzenes (CNBs) has not been reported, and degradation of CNBs by coculture of two microbial strains was attempted. Pseudomonas putida HS12 was first isolated by analogue enrichment culture using nitrobenzene (NB) as the substrate, and this strain was observed to possess a partial reductive pathway for the degradation of NB. From high-perform...

Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) constitute an important class of phase II (de)toxifying enzymes, catalysing the conjugation of glutathione (GSH) with electrophilic compounds. In the present study, Km, kcat and kcat/Km values for the rat GST 1-1-, 3-3-, 4-4- and 7-7-catalysed conjugation reactions between GSH and a series of 10 different 2-substituted 1-chloro-4-nitrobenzenes, and the second-o...