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Under sulfate limitation, axenic batch cultures of the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus metabolized 1-naphthalenesulfonic acid and partially used the sulfonate as a source of sulfur. The main metabolite, 1-hydroxy-2-naphthalenesulfonic acid, which was not metabolized further in the algal culture, was formed by hydroxylation of the substrate in position 1 and by migration of the sulfonic acid group to position 2 of the naphthalene ring (NIH shift). A smaller amount of 1-naphthalenesulfonic acid was desulfonated. The resulting 1-naphthol was mostly transformed into 1-naphthyl β-d-glucopyranoside.
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Received: 27 March 1996 / Revision received: 18 October 1996 / Accepted: 30 October 1996
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Kneifel, H., Elmendorff, K., Hegewald, E. et al. Biotransformation of 1-naphthalenesulfonic acid by the green alga Scenedesmus obliquus. Arch Microbiol 167, 32–37 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050413
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002030050413