Biphenyl-2-sulfinic acids

Lee, W. C. Ohshiro, T. Matsubara, T., et al., Crystallization and Preliminary X-Ray Analyses of Desulfurization Enzyme DszB and Its C27S Mutant Complexed With Biphenyl-2-Sulfinic Acid. Acta Crystallographica Section D-Biological Crystallography, 2004. 60 pp. 1636-1638. 

Biphenyl-2-sulfinic acids from 2 phenyl sulfone molecules... 

Rhodococcus sp. Strain T09 A Rhodococcus strain T09 was isolated by enrichment on media-containing BT. The desulfurization mechanism of this organism was reported to be similar to Gordonia sp. 213E due to the observation of similar intermediates however, the substrate specificity was different. The strain T09 could use 2-methyl, 3-methyl and 5-methyl BT apart from BT as sole source of sulfur for growth, but not 7-methyl or ethyl derivatives. Additionally, it could also use methyl thiobenzothiazole, marcaptobenzothiazole, as well as benzene sulfide, benzene sulfonate, biphenyl sulfinate, dimethyl sulfate, dimethyl sulfone, dimethyl sulfide, methane sulfonic acid, thiophene, and taurine as sole sulfur sources. However, it could not grow on DBT or DBT sulfone. 

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