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. 2006 Oct 13;188(24):8662–8665. doi: 10.1128/JB.01312-06

TABLE 2.

Effect of badM on benzoate-CoA ligase activity

Strainb Benzoate-CoA ligase activity for cellsa
Benzoate grown Succinate grown
CGA009 30.2 6.0
CGA131 27.8 55.9
CGA009(pCP561) 27.7 7.5
CGA131(pCP561) 28.7 8.5
a

Expressed as nmol product per min per mg protein in crude cell extracts (8). The concentration of benzoate added to the reaction mixtures was 10 μM. Values are the averages of activities from two independently prepared extracts.

b

CGA009, wild type; CGA131, badM mutant.