TABLE 4.
GSH-independent formaldehyde dehydrogenase activities
| GSH-independent formaldehyde dehydrogenase (μ mol NADH/min/mg protein)a |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Wild type | ΔflhS | ΔflhR | |
| Succinate | 4 (0.1) | 2 (0.6) | 3 (0.9) |
| Choline | 5 (2) | 1 (0.6) | 2(0.2) |
| Glycine betaine | 6 (2) | 5 (1) | 4 (0.4) |
| Dimethylglycine | 20 (3) | 7 (4) | 9 (1) |
| Sarcosine | 13 (5) | 6 (4) | 14 (7) |
| Stachydrine | 74 (21) | 8 (3) | 28 (4) |
a
GSH-independent formaldehyde dehydrogenase activities are the means of assays from three independently grown cultures with the standard deviation in parentheses.