title: NAD-specific 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase in lactic acid bacteria.
abstract: 6-Phosphogluconate dehydrogenase was screened in for cell-free extracts from seventeen strains of lactic acid bacteria. Three types of the enzyme could be classified according to the coenzyme specificity: NAD-specific, NADP-specific, and non-specific types. The two strains that had a heterofermentative pathways had an NAD-specific 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase. This type had higher enzyme activity per proteins in the cell-free extracts, and more specificity to NAD compared to the other types of the enzyme in the lactic acid bacteria studied.
authors.affiliation: New Business Development Department, Shimadzu Co., Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ohara
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yahata
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kondo
mesh_terms: D002474:Cell-Free System / Q000201:enzymology; D007778:Lactobacillus / Q000201:enzymology*; D007934:Leuconostoc / Q000201:enzymology*; D009243:NAD / Q000378:metabolism*; D010734:Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D013045:Species Specificity; D013291:Streptococcus / Q000201:enzymology*
chemical_list: D009243:NAD; D010734:Phosphogluconate Dehydrogenase