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SUBMITTER: Nagasaki K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2519264 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nagasaki Kenji K Kumazawa Masaro M Murakami Shuichiro S Takenaka Shinji S Koike Kenzo K Aoki Kenji K
Applied and environmental microbiology 20080627 16
Ceriporiopsis sp. strain MD-1, isolated from forest soil, produced several extracellular enzymes that decolorized human hair melanin. Among them, three enzymes (E1, E2-1, and E2-2) were purified to homogeneity and characterized. The enzymes required hydrogen peroxide in their enzyme reactions and, typical of other fungal peroxidases, oxidized various phenol compounds such as guaiacol, but not 3,4-dimethoxybenzyl alcohol. The spectra of the three enzymes showed an absorption maximum at 406 nm, in ...[more]