title: [Nitro esterase activity of Pseudomonas fluorescens].
abstract: The authors have demonstrated the biological nature of a process in which nitroester bonds are hydrolysed in the molecule of nitrocellulose. Pseudomonas fluorescens, strain 1/2, was isolated from a natural cenosis of microorganisms inhabiting active ooze, which was selected in a device for continuous cultivation by immobilisation on nitrocellulose fibers. The strain cleaves some nitro groups off the surface of nitrocellulose and the resultant nitrate ions are used in the process of assimilative reduction.
mesh_terms: D003101:Collodion / Q000378:metabolism; D004950:Esterases / Q000378:metabolism*; D006868:Hydrolysis; D009574:Nitro Compounds / Q000378:metabolism*; D011551:Pseudomonas fluorescens / Q000201:enzymology*; D012988:Soil Microbiology
chemical_list: D009574:Nitro Compounds; D003101:Collodion; D004950:Esterases; C055877:nitrocellulose nitroesterase
vernacular_title: Nitroésteraznaia aktivnost' Pseudomonas fluorescens.