Degradative pathway ofp-aminoazobenzene byBacillus subtilis

✍ Scribed by Eiichi Idaka; Toshihiko Ogawa; Hiroyuki Horitsu; Chidzuko Yatome

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 174 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1432-0614
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00499522

✦ Synopsis

Bacillus subtilis to aniline and p-phenylenediamine by reductive fission of an azo bond. The aniline was then acetylated to acetanilide while the p-phenylenediamine underwent 2 successive acetylations to yield p-aminoacetanilideand p-phenylenediacetanilide. In addition, another pathway was found in Bacillus subtilis in which p-aminoazobenzene was metabolised to p-acetamidoazobenzene.