Cell suspensions of Methylosinus trichosporium oxidized the aromatic alcohols benzyl alcohol, vanillyl alcohol, and veratryl alcohol to the corresponding aldehydes, and with the exception of vanillyl alcohol, the aldehydes were further oxidized to the corresponding aromatic acids. No other transformation was observed, and the methoxyl moieties attached to the aromatic nucleus remained intact. M...

The aerobic oxidation of sulfite thus provides a magnified manometric response to the chain initiating event. Advantage was taken of this circumstance to develop an ultrasensitive assay for milk xanthine oxidase (5). The data obtained were consistent with the hypothesis that xanthine oxidase, when acting on purine substrates, initiates the aerobic oxidation of sulfite by the generation of free ...