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Published in final edited form as: Plant Physiol Biochem. 2015 Nov 27;98:171–185. doi: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2015.11.017

Table 2.

Substrate specificity of aldonolactone oxidoreductases towards each other's preferred substrates

Source l-Gulono-1,4-lactone d-Mannono-1,4-lactone l-Galactono-1,4-lactone d-Altrono-1,4-lactone d-Arabinono-1,4-lactone d-Glucono-1,4-lactone References
Animals Rat 100 68 87 47 22 NDd Ashwell et al., 1961
Rat 100 (0.066 mM) 61 70 15 ND <3 Kiuchi et al., 1982
Nishikimi et al., 1976
Chicken 100 (0.007 mM) 64 90 16 ND <3 Kiuchi et al., 1982
Goat 100 (0.15 mM) ND ND ND ND ND Nishikimi et al., 1976

Fungi S. cerevisiae 32 <3 100 68 ND <3 Nishikimi et al., 1978
S. cerevisiae 0 ND 100 (0.30 mM) 65 (2.0 mM) 97 (0.16 mM) ND Bleeg and Christensen, 1982
C. albicans 24.7 ND 87.6 (53.7 mM) ND 100 (44.1 mM) NDd Huh et al., 1994
P. griseoroseum 0 0 ND ND ND 100e (1.7 mM) Takahashi et al., 1976
P. notatum ND ND 0 0 ND 100 Takahashi, 1969
G. frondosa 100 (24 mM) 25 2 0 0 NDd Okamura, 2001
L. edodes 100 24 0 0 0 NDd Okamura, 2001

Bacteria M. tuberculosis 100 (5.5 mM) ND 0 ND ND ND Wolucka and Communi, 2006
G. oxydans 100 (34.8 mM) ND 0 ND ND NDd Sugisawa et al., 1995

Protozoa T. brucei 3 ND 77 (0.154 mM) ND 100 (0.055 mM) ND Wilkinson et al., 2005
T. cruzi 0 ND 100 (0.161 mM) ND 96 (0.285 mM) ND Logan et al., 2005
L. donovani 0 ND ND ND 100 (0.039 mM) ND Biyani and Madhubala, 2011

Algae E. gracilis 71 ND 100 ND ND ND Shigeoka et al., 1979

Plants Cauliflower 0 0 100 (2 and 4 mM)a 10 ND 0 Mapson and Breslow, 1958
Cauliflower 0 ND 100 (3.3 mM) ND ND ND Østergaard et al., 1977
White potato 19.5 ND 100 (0.08 and 0.23 mM)b ND ND ND Ôba et al., 1994
Sweet potato 1 ND 100 (0.12 mM) ND ND ND Ôba et al., 1995
Spinach 0 ND 100 (0.192 mM) ND ND ND Mutsuda et al., 1995
Tobacco 7 ND 100 (0.06 and 0.08 mM)c ND ND ND Yabuta et al., 2000
Strawberry 0 ND 100 ND ND ND Nascimento et al., 2005
Arabidopsis (13.1 mM) ND 100 (0.17 mM) ND 10.2 mM ND Leferink et al., 2008b
Leferink et al., 2009c
a

with different electron acceptors

b

with different methods

c

with native and recombinant enzymes

d

No or very less activity with Dglucono-1,5-lactone

e

similar result with d-glucono-1,5-lactone; ND, not determined. Numbers in the parantheses indicate the substrate affinity values (Km).