A cell-free preparation was obtained from a culture of Mycobacterium avium. This preparation contained an L-alanine reductase which reduces L-alanine to L-alaninol, a constituant of the mycoside C(2). This reduction is better when ATP and NADH are present in the incubation medium.
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Laboratoire de Chimie biologique, Faculté des Sciences de Lyon, 43 boulevard du 11 novembre 1918, 69-, Villeurbanne, France
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Synthese du L-alaninol a partir d'extraits acellulaires de Mycobacterium avium.