The realization that p-aminobenzoic acid is essential as a growth factor has stimulated extensive research in the field of antagonists of this essential metabolite. Woods (1940) and Woods and Fildes (1940) reported that yeast contained a substance, identified as p-aminobenzoic acid, that could protect it against the growth inhibiting action of sulfanilamide. Youmans et al. (1947) reported the t...

The acetylation mechanisms of several selected typical substrates from experiments, including arylamines and arylhydrazines, are investigated with the density functional theory in this paper. The results indicate that all the transition states are characterized by a four-membered ring structure, and hydralazine (HDZ) is the most potent substrate. The bioactivity for all the compounds is increas...

The proposed mechanism(s) associated with the inhibition of essential metabolic reactions by various compounds has received a great deal of attention in recent years, since antimetabolites have proved useful in several chemotherapeutic areas and in studying various metabolic reactions. The significance of p-aminobenzoic acid in microbial nutrition was first emphasized when Woods (1940) and Wood...

The adsorption behavior of p-aminobenzoic acid and o-aminobenzoic acid onto the different polymeric adsorbents was systematically investigated as a function of the solution concentration and temperature. Experimental results indicated that the equilibrium adsorption data of the four polymeric adsorbents fitted well in the Freundlich isotherm. The adsorption capacity of multi-functional polymeri...

Escherichia coli p-aminobenzoate synthase is composed of two nonidentical subunits encoded by pabA and pabB and has been assumed to be the sole enzyme responsible for p-aminobenzoate biosynthesis from chorismate and glutamine. Plasmids were constructed that overproduce the p-aminobenzoate synthase subunits 250-500-fold. Partial purification of the subunits revealed that they form a diffusible i...