Affiliation:
1. Department of Biochemistry, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky 40506
Abstract
Compounds known to be inhibitors of mixed-function oxidase systems inhibited the aerobic synthesis of hydroxylated carotenoids in
Staphylococcus aureus
U-71. Growth of the cells in the presence of 2-diethylaminoethyl-2,2-diphenyl valerate, 2,4-dichloro-6-phenylphenoxyethylamine, 2,4-dichloro-6-phenylphenoxyethyldiethylamine, and piperonyl butoxide reduced the levels of the rubixanthins found in stationary-phase cells by 75 to 97%. In cells grown with mevalonate-
2
-
14
C
, the turnover rate of phytoene was reduced and the turnover rate of phytofluenol was increased in the presence of these inhibitors. The ζ- and δ-carotenes, which turn over in the absence of the inhibitors, accumulated
14
C in the presence of the inhibitors. This suggested that a mixed-function oxidase was responsible for the aerobic hydroxylation of δ-carotene in
S. aureus
U-71.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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